About Infrapress
Infrapress is an imprint of Writers.com Books which began in 2003 as an offshoot of Writers On the Net/Writers.com, an online writing school established in 1995. Our goal is to publish high quality fiction that has slipped "beneath the radar" in some way or another: good books that are out of print or fiction that doesn't make any pretense of being suitable for mass consumption.
Like cælum, a word used to name our sister imprint, infra comes from Latin. Infra means "below, under, beneath, underneath." (Cælum means "sky, heaven" and a type of tool. You can learn more on the Cælum Press "about" page.) To a certain extent -- since the sky is "above" -- infra might be considered an opposite of sorts to cælum. Its exact antonym, though, is supra. In other senses, infra can signify "within" or "during." You'll find it as a prefix in English words like infrared ("the part of the spectrum that lies 'below' the visible"), infrasonic ("having to do with frequencies below that of audible sound") and infrastructure ("underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system").
If you read academic research papers you may run across vide infra ("look or see below," often abbreviated to v.i. or v.inf.). The old fashioned British colloquialism infra dig is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase infra dignitatem, or "below (one's) dignity." In legal terminology, infra dignitatem curae, means "below the dignity of the court." Other legal Latin terms featuring infra include:
- infra hospitium - "within the inn"; once a traveler's baggage comes infra hospitium (in the care and under the charge of the innkeeper), it is at his risk.
- infra atatem - "under age"
- infra corpus comitatus- "within the body of the county"
- infra praesidia - "within the guards" (this has something to do with captured "prizes" being totally in the possession of the captors.)
- (and, our favorite --) infra furorem - "during the madness"
