ultima

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• In phonetics, the final syllable of a word is referred to as the ultima.

• When analyzing Latin words, the ultima is crucial for understanding their pronunciation.

• A Prussian spy—that is the ultima ratio!

  Fiction book (1997)

• This was not the way she would have chosen to explain things to Santerese, at a distance and over a flickering ultima line, but there was no evading the question.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The basic principles of a democratic legal system have gradually been introduced into the legal order and consequently transferred into penal law (especially the principle of ultima ratio).

  Academic text (2007)

• The move dampened the opposition among the ultima to the negotiations with the consortium of oil companies and to Iran's partnership in the Baghdad Pact.

  Academic text (2004)

• When doctors wish to appear clever and eloquent, they use two Latin expressions: nomina sunt odiosa and ultima ratio.

  Fiction book (1997)

• This doctrine justifies, as an ultima ratio, resorting to an exceptional military regime, a transitory dictatorship to restore order, before returning power to the legitimate authorities when this goal is achieved.

  Academic text (1993)

• The third argument is based on what Spinoza ironically labels a "reduction to ignorance," according to which God's teleological design is inferred as an ultima ratio explanation in order to account for phenomena that humans are not able to explain in other ways.

  Academic text (2016)

Compounds

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ultima Thule

• Archaic

1 9.9

A very distant place beyond the known world

Surface Forms

Etymology