infra

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fɹə/

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin infra (“below”).

Adverb edit

infra (not comparable)

1. (law) Discussed later.

Antonyms edit

• supra

Derived terms edit

• infra dig

Related terms edit

• vide infra

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

infra (countable and uncountable, plural infras)

1. (civil engineering, computing, informal) Clipping of infrastructure.
   • 2005, Kyung-Bae Chang et al., “Meteorological Phenomena Measurement System Using the Wireless Network”, in Rajiv Khosla, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, page 861:

     However, as the nations 70% is^[sic] covered with mountains, gathering of the meteorological information of particular regions (mountains, canyons, islands etc) by wired transmission system is difficult and it costs a lot of money. This is one of the obstacles of the construction of an infra for the prevention of disasters caused by meteorological changes.

   • 2012, T. Mäkeläinen, J. Hyvärinen, J. Peura, “BIM practices and challenges framed – an approach to systemic change management”, in Gudni Gudnason, Raimar Scherer, editors, eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 498:

     In this paper we focus on the context of infra construction and development – the problem being: lack of relevant tools for management of BIM [building information modelling] implementation actions.

   • 2014, Yoojin Lim, Eunmi Choi, “Mobile Cloud Computing Architectural Design Taxonomy toward the ‘Cloud Computing in Hand’ Era”, in Young-Sik Jeong et al., editors, Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, page 519:

     Technologies in cloud computing have become mature in the infra systems and cloud server-level service providers, which have kept the infra system technologies as the data centers, server clusters, virtualization, service providers by extending services of Private Cloud.

   • 2015 April 2, James Somers, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review‎^[1]:

     (Last year Zuckerberg announced a new engineering slogan: “Move fast with stable infra,” using the hacker shorthand for the infrastructure that keeps the site running.)

Anagrams edit

• Frain, Irfan, frain

Etymology edit

Clipping of infrastruktuuri

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈinfrɑ/, [ˈiɱfrɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -infrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): inf‧ra

Noun edit

infra (informal)

1. infra (infrastructure)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

• “infra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Pronunciation edit

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Adverb edit

infra

1. infra

Noun edit

infra m (plural infras)

1. infra (infrastructure)

Further reading edit

• “infra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Preposition edit

infra

1. among
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,

     You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

Adverb edit

infra

1. Only used in vedi infra

Anagrams edit

• frani

Etymology edit

Adverb contracted from the ablative īnferā (parte), of īnferus. Compare Faliscan infra, Oscan huntrus, Umbrian hondra.

The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fraː/, [ˈĩːfräː]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fra/, [ˈiɱfrä]

Adverb edit

īnfrā (not comparable)

1. below

Antonyms edit

• suprā

Descendants edit

• → English: infra (learned)
• → French: infra (learned)
• → French: infra (learned)

Preposition edit

īnfrā (+ accusative)

1. below

Antonyms edit

• suprā

Descendants edit

• > Friulian: fra (inherited)
• Istriot: infra
• > Italian: fra (inherited)
• Judeo-Italian: אֵינְפֵֿירַה (enfera)
• Venetian: infrà
• → English: infra- (learned)
• → French: infra- (learned)
• → Indonesian: infra- (learned)
• → Italian: infra- (learned)
• → Dutch: infra- (learned)
• → Portuguese: infra- (learned)
• → Spanish: infra- (learned)
• ⇒ Finnish: infra- (internationalism)

References edit

• “infra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• infra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to feel superior to the affairs of life: res humanas infra se positas arbitrari
    
  • to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari
    
  • as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est