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contra

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from Latin contra.

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to

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AdverbEdit

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

  1. contrary to something

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NounEdit

contra (plural contras)

  1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
  2. (politics) A conservative; pejorative slang originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
  3. (accounting) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
    a contra position; a contra entry
    The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.
  4. (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
  5. (dance) A contra dance.
  6. (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
    • 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.
      Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

TranslationsEdit

(accounting) an entry (or account) that cancels another entry

VerbEdit

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)

  1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.
    to contra a position (an entry)

TranslationsEdit

(accounting) to undo an entry

AnagramsEdit

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

contra

  1. against
    • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:
      Més endavant, va parlar contra la gent sense família
      But before, he spoke against people without family

NounEdit

contra m (plural contres)

  1. con (disadvantage)
    Antonym: pro

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Further readingEdit

DalmatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

AdverbEdit

contra

  1. against

ReferencesEdit

  • 2000, Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

FinnishEdit

NounEdit

contra

  1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of contra (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative contra contrat
genitive contran contrien
partitive contraa contria
illative contraan contriin
singular plural
nominative contra contrat
accusative nom. contra contrat
gen. contran
genitive contran contrien
contrainrare
partitive contraa contria
inessive contrassa contrissa
elative contrasta contrista
illative contraan contriin
adessive contralla contrilla
ablative contralta contrilta
allative contralle contrille
essive contrana contrina
translative contraksi contriksi
instructive — contrin
abessive contratta contritta
comitative — contrineen

SynonymsEdit

FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

contra

  1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

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GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against

NounEdit

contra f (plural contras)

  1. (usually in the plural) shutter

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkontra/, [ˈkon̪.t̪r̺ä]
  • Hyphenation: cón‧tra
  • Rhymes: -ontra

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin contrā.

AdverbEdit

contra

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. Obsolete form of contro.

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Inflected form of contrare

VerbEdit

contra

  1. third-person singular present indicative of contrare
  2. second-person singular imperative of contrare

AnagramsEdit

LadinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From cum (older com), as in intrā from in, extrā from ex etc. Confer with the semantics of English with.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

contrā

  1. against
  2. opposite to
  3. contrary to
  4. otherwise
  5. in return, back

PrepositionEdit

contrā (+ accusative)

  1. against
  2. across from, opposite

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DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • contra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • contra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • contra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
    • it is a breach of duty to..: contra officium est c. Inf.
    • for the advantage of the state; in the interests of the state: e re publica (opp. contra rem p.)
    • a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    • to foster revolutionary projects: contra rem publicam sentire
    • to be guilty of high treason: contra rem publicam facere
    • to conspire with some one: conspirare cum aliquo (contra aliquem)
    • against all law, human and divine: contra ius fasque
  • contra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PronunciationEdit

  • (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /kõ.tɾɐ/
  • Hyphenation: con‧tra

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against

AntonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • “contra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French contre, Italian contra, Latin contra. Doublet of the inherited către.

PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against, versus

AdverbEdit

contra

  1. against, opposed to, opposite
  2. in exchange for

SpanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin contra.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkontɾa/, [ˈkõn̪t̪ɾa]
  • Audio (Latin America)
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PrepositionEdit

contra

  1. against, versus
    la lucha contra el prejuicio
    the fight against prejudice

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DescendantsEdit

NounEdit

contra m (plural contras)

  1. con (disadvantage)
    Antonym: pro

AdverbEdit

contra

  1. opposite, facing

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AnagramsEdit

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