contrair
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin contrahere, with change of conjugation.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: con‧tra‧ir
Verb edit
contrair (first-person singular present contraio, first-person singular preterite contraí, past participle contraído)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
- (grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
- (transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
- (transitive) to acquire (to come to have)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of contrair (irregular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Scots edit
Preposition edit
contrair
- against; in opposition to