supra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin suprā.

adv

1. (law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one.
2. Above, mentioned earlier in a text.
   Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work. September 15, 2018, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books

Etymology 2

noun

1. Clipping of supranational.
   This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras. 2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, page 147

Etymology 3

From Georgian სუფრა (supra).

noun

1. A traditional Georgian feast.
   When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality. 2006, Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border, part II, chapter v, 125
   We might add here the tendency of kinto poetry to be associated with articulating and eliciting love and desire (whether heterosexual, homoerotic or homosexual), as well as the noted homoeroticism of the supra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated. 2011, Paul Manning, Zaza Shatirishvili, “The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City”, in Tsypylma Darieva et al., editors, Urban Spaces after Socialism, 279
   The supra became the symbol of hospitality manifested by a particular way of eating, drinking and feasting in which guests are treated with outmost attention. 2013, Adrian Brisku, Bittersweet Europe, chapter i, 14