Ultima

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Ultima may refer to:

• Ultima (series), a series of video games
• Ultima Online, a MMORPG video game
• Baroque chess, known in the northeastern region of the United States as "Ultima"
• Ultima Thule in medieval geographies may denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world"
• Ultima Sports Ltd, a manufacturer of sports cars based in England
• Bless Me, Ultima is a novel by Rudolfo Anaya with a character called Ultima
• Ultima, Victoria, a town in Australia
• Kyosho Ultima, a radio-controlled car made by Kyosho
• Ultima (sports drink), a powder-based sports drink high in electrolytes
• Ultima, in Quantitative Finance, a third order derivative of an option pricing function versus the volatility.
• Ultima is the most powerful black magic spell in most Final Fantasy games.

[edit] See also

• Ultimo (disambiguation), similar term

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In Classical Latin, ultima is the superlative form of the adjective ulter, ultra, ultrum (respectively masculine, feminine, and neuter singular forms) whose comparative form is ulterior for the masculine and feminine genders, and ulterius for the neuter. As a superlative, it denotes very great distance in translation, as in being on the farthest point or place of something, said often of geographically remote lands. The opposite of ultimus, ultima, ultimum is proximus, proxima, proximum.

Etymologically, ultimus is probably not related to the past participle of ulciscor (take vengeance on), ultus (avenged).