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ultima¹

  • /ˈʌltɪmə/

Where it comes from

From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

noun ultimas

  1. countable The final syllable of a word.
  2. 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.

    Similar: DvommaDvol

Ultima²

proper noun

  1. A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia

Ultima³

Where it comes from

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

proper noun

  1. The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object. For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time.

Ultima⁴

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).

    Similar: Baroque

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noun final syllable

DeutschEndsilbe, Schlusssilbe, letzte Silbe, Ultima
Ελληνικάλήγουσα lígousa

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"ultima." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ultima. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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ultima. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ultima

Chicago

"ultima." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ultima.

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@misc{ultima_2026,
  title = {ultima},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ultima},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}