different between ultimate vs ultima

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ultim?tus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultim?, ultim?re (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??lt?m?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lt?m?t/

Adjective

ultimate (not comparable)

1. Final; last in a series.
2. (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
4. Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
5. That will happen at some time; eventual.
6. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection

     those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict

7. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.

Synonyms

• (final): See Thesaurus:final
• (most extreme): utmost, uttermost

Antonyms

• (w.r.t. causes): initial, original
• (most extreme): original, derivative

Coordinate terms

• (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

ultimate (countable and uncountable, plural ultimates)

1. The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
2. The final or most distant point; the conclusion
3. The greatest extremity; the maximum
4. (uncountable) The game of ultimate frisbee.

Translations

Verb

ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
   • 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)

     These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.

Further reading

• ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ultimate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• mutilate

Finnish

Etymology

From English ultimate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ultim?te/, [?ult?i?m?t?e?]
• Rhymes: -?te
• Syllabification: ul?ti?ma?te

Noun

ultimate

1. ultimate frisbee (game)

Declension

Anagrams

• amuletit, amuletti, laitumet, leimattu, leimatut

Italian

Verb

ultimate

1. inflection of ultimare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• multiate, mutilate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ul.ti?ma?.te/, [???t???mä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ul.ti?ma.te/, [ul?t?i?m??t??]

Verb

ultim?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ultim?

English

Etymology

Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

Noun

ultima (countable and uncountable, plural ultimas)

1. (grammar, prosody, countable) The final syllable of a word.
2. (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): DvommaDvol

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Coordinate terms

(names of syllables): ultima, ult (last); penultima, penultimate, penult (last but one); antepenultima, antepenultime, antepenultimate, antepenult (last but two); preantepenultima (præantepenultima), preantepenultimate, preantepenult (last but three); propreantepenultimate, propreantepenult (last but four)

Translations

Anagrams

• Iatmul, Latium, mulita

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin

Noun

ultima

1. (prosody) ultima (last syllable in a multisyllable word)

Declension

Anagrams

• Multia, muilta

Italian

Adjective

ultima f sg

1. feminine singular of ultimo

Noun

ultima f (plural ultime)

1. female equivalent of ultimo

Verb

ultima

1. third-person singular present indicative of ultimare
2. second-person singular imperative of ultimare

Anagrams

• multai, mutila, umiltà

Ladin

Adjective

ultima

1. feminine singular of ultim

Latin

Adjective

ultima

1. nominative feminine singular of ultimus
2. nominative neuter plural of ultimus
3. accusative neuter plural of ultimus
4. vocative feminine singular of ultimus
5. vocative neuter plural of ultimus

Adjective

ultim?

1. ablative feminine singular of ultimus

Anagrams

• Latium

Portuguese

Verb

ultima

1. third-person singular present indicative of ultimar
2. second-person singular imperative of ultimar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ul.ti.ma]

Adjective

ultima

1. definite nominative feminine singular of ultim
2. definite accusative feminine singular of ultim

Spanish

Verb

ultima

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ultimar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ultimar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ultimar.