contractus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of contrahō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈtrak.tus/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈtrak.tus/, [kon̪ˈt̪räkt̪us]

Participle

contractus (feminine contracta, neuter contractum); first/second-declension participle

1. collected, accomplished, contracted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	contractus	contracta	contractum		contractī	contractae	contracta
Genitive	contractī	contractae	contractī		contractōrum	contractārum	contractōrum
Dative	contractō		contractō		contractīs
Accusative	contractum	contractam	contractum		contractōs	contractās	contracta
Ablative	contractō	contractā	contractō		contractīs
Vocative	contracte	contracta	contractum		contractī	contractae	contracta

Adjective

contractus (feminine contracta, neuter contractum, comparative contractior); first/second-declension adjective

1. narrow, restricted, pinched, cramped
2. abridged, terse
3. restrained

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	contractus	contracta	contractum		contractī	contractae	contracta
Genitive	contractī	contractae	contractī		contractōrum	contractārum	contractōrum
Dative	contractō		contractō		contractīs
Accusative	contractum	contractam	contractum		contractōs	contractās	contracta
Ablative	contractō	contractā	contractō		contractīs
Vocative	contracte	contracta	contractum		contractī	contractae	contracta

Descendants

• Italian: contratto

Noun

contractus m (genitive contractūs); fourth declension

1. collection
2. contraction
3. contract, agreement

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	contractus	contractūs
Genitive	contractūs	contractuum
Dative	contractuī	contractibus
Accusative	contractum	contractūs
Ablative	contractū	contractibus
Vocative	contractus	contractūs

Descendants

• Catalan: contracte
• → Galician: contrato
• → German: Kontrakt
• Italian: contratto
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kontrakt
• → Old French: contract
  • French: contrat
  • → Middle Dutch: contract
    • Dutch: contract
      • Afrikaans: kontrak
      • Negerhollands: kontragt
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: kantrák
      • → Caribbean Javanese: kontrak
      • → Indonesian: kontrak
      • → Papiamentu: kontrakt
      • → West Frisian: kontrakt
  • → Middle English: contract
    • English: contract
      • → Burmese: ကန်ထရိုက် (kanhta.ruik)
      • → Welsh: contract
      • Tok Pisin: kontrak
  • Norman: contrat
• Old Galician-Portuguese: contreito
  • Portuguese: contreito, contrato (borrowing)
• Piedmontese: contrat
• Romanian: contract
• Russian: контра́кт (kontrákt)
• Spanish: contrato

References

• “contractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contractus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “contractus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contractus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “contractus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin