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Vinony

ultimate

adjective

  1. last or final
L10922 on Wikidata ↗

noun

  1. team sport played with a disc
L329791 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈʌltɪmət/ / /-ɪt/

adj

Etymology: * From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-. * (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.

  1. Final; last in a series.

    “[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]”

  2. Last in a word or other utterance.
  3. Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

    “the ultimate pleasure”

    “the ultimate disappointment”

  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.

    “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.

    “an ultimate constituent of matter”

noun

Etymology: * From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-. * (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.

  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. Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee or ultimate disc.

verb

Etymology: * From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-. * (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.

  1. To finish; to complete.

    “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.”