Standard Lemma guide

ultima

name · noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈʌltɪmə/
  • CMU ARPABET: AH1 L T IH0 M AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Baroque

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The final syllable of a word.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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5

noun

Meaning 5

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: business, finance

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: DvommaDvol

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Greeks

6

noun

Meaning 6

the last syllable in a word

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: syllable

History

Etymology

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

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

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: վերջավանկ (verǰavank) — final syllable
  • Armenian: վերջնավանկ (verǰnavank) — final syllable
  • Finnish: ultima — final syllable
  • German: Endsilbe — final syllable
  • German: Schlusssilbe — final syllable
  • German: letzte Silbe — final syllable
  • German: Ultima — final syllable
  • Greek: λήγουσα (lígousa) — final syllable