unulteriore

Unulteriore is not a standard Italian word listed in authoritative dictionaries. It is typically seen as a concatenation of the indefinite article un with the adjective ulteriore, which in proper Italian should be written as two separate words: un ulteriore. The single-token form is generally considered nonstandard and may appear as a typographical error, in hurried writing, or in multilingual texts where spacing is lost.

Etymology and meaning

The adjective ulteriore derives from Latin ulterius or ulteriores, meaning further or additional. In Italian, ulteriore is used to denote something that adds to a previous item or step, equivalent to “additional” or “further” in English. The prefix un- in Italian does not form a single word with ulteriore; rather, un ulteriore functions as a determiner-plus-adjective construction meaning “an additional one.”

Usage

In standard Italian, you should write un ulteriore when you mean “an additional one”: for example, Questo è un ulteriore motivo per agire. or Abbiamo bisogno di un ulteriore sforzo. The adjective ulteriore also appears without the article in phrases such as una motivazione ulteriore or un passo ulteriore, depending on context. In formal or academic writing, avoiding the fused form helps maintain clarity and correctness.

See also

Ulteriore (Italian adjective) and ulteriore, ulteriori (plural forms); ulterio­rius (Latin cognate).

Notes

While readers may encounter слowed or mistaken forms like unulteriore in texts with inconsistent spacing or editing, the correct Italian standard is two words: un ulteriore.