Definition of "ultima" []

• The last syllable of a word. (noun)

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• "Medieval maps used to use the phrase ultima Thule to denote anywhere far enough to lie beyond the "borders of the known world"."
• "(by nature or position), and on either the penult or the antepenult, the circumflex is found only on long vowels, and (in words of more than one syllable) only on the penult, and then only in case the ultima is short."
• "The deal European leaders worked out late Thursday holds out the possibility of bilateral loans (and IMF aid) to any troubled euro-zone country but only as an "ultima ratio" and "if market financing is insufficient.""