extra
pronunciation
How to pronounce extra in British English:
UK [ˈekstrə]
How to pronounce extra in American English:
US [ˈekstrə]
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- Noun:
- a minor actor in crowd scenes
- an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)
- something additional of the same kind
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- Adjective:
- further or added
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- added to a regular schedule
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- Adverb:
- unusually or exceptionally
Word Origin
- extra
- extra: [18] In its modern English use, ‘beyond what is normal’ or ‘additional’, extra is probably an abbreviation of extraordinary [15], in which the prefix represents Latin extrā ‘outside, beyond’. This in turn was short for exterā, the ablative feminine case of the adjective exterus ‘outer’ (from which English gets exterior [16]). And exterus itself began life as a compound form based on Latin ex ‘out’.=> exterior, extreme
- extra
- 1650s as a stand-alone adjective; also used as an adverb and noun in 17c. (see extra-); modern usages -- including sense of "minor performer in a play" (1777) and "special edition of a newspaper" (1793) -- probably all are from shortenings of extraordinary, which in 18c. was used extensively as noun and adverb in places extra would serve today.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Investors will welcome the extra disclosure .
- 2. This might cause an extra request / response round-trip .
- 3. But where are the extra two to be found ?
- 4. Power down before you move around to be extra careful .
- 5. So baristas in britain recently began adding a free extra shot of espresso .