Agfdhyk

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin contra.

Pronunciation

• 
  IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntɹə/
  

Preposition

contra

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

Synonyms

• 
  against, anti
  

Antonyms

• 
  for, pro
  

Translations

Adverb

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. contrary to something

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily
  

Translations

Noun

contra (plural contras)

1. 
   (business) a deal to swap goods or services


2. 
   (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.

     
     

   
   


3. 
   (music, informal) any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass
   


4. 
   (dance) A contra dance.


5. 
   (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.

     
     
   
   

Translations

Verb

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)
   
   

Translations

Anagrams

• 
  Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon
  

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Pronunciation

• 
  (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.tɾə/
  


• 
  (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tɾa/
  

Adverb

contra

1. 
   against
   
   • 
     2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono (in Catalan):

     
     Més endavant, va parlar contra la gent sense família

     But before, he spoke against people without family

     
     

     
     
   
   

Noun

contra m (plural contres)

1. 
   con (disadvantage)
   

   Antonym: pro

   
   

Related terms

• contra-


• contrari

Further reading

• 
  “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Etymology

This entry lacks etymological information. If you are familiar with the origin of this term, please add it to the page per etymology instructions. You can also discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.

Adverb

contra

1. against

References

• 
  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.

Finnish

Noun

contra

1. 
   Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)
   

Declension

Synonyms

• contrasissi

French

Verb

contra

1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

Anagrams

• carton

Galician

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

1. 
   (usually in the plural) shutter
   

Italian

Pronunciation

• 
  IPA^(key): /ˈkontra/, [ˈkon̪.t̪r̺ä]
  


• Hyphenation: cón‧tra
  


• Rhymes: -ontra
  

Etymology 1

From Latin contrā.

Adverb

contra

Preposition

contra

1. 
   Obsolete form of contro.

See also

• contraposto

Etymology 2

Inflected form of contrare

Verb

contra

1. third-person singular present indicative of contrare


2. second-person singular imperative of contrare

Anagrams

• tronca

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 
  (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.traː/, [ˈkɔn.traː]
  

Adverb

contrā

1. against


2. 
   opposite to


3. 
   contrary to


4. otherwise


5. in return, back

Preposition

contrā (+ accusative)

1. against


2. 
   across from, opposite
   

Derived terms

• contrarius

Descendants

References

• 
  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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Pronunciation

• 
  (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾɐ/
  


• Hyphenation: con‧tra
  

Preposition

contra

1. against

Antonyms

• a favor


• em prol


• em favor


• em defesa

Romanian

Etymology

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

Preposition

contra

1. 
   against, versus
   

Adverb

contra

1. 
   against, opposed to, opposite
   


2. 
   in exchange for

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

contra

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Pronunciation

• 
  IPA^(key): /ˈkontɾa/, [ˈkõn̪t̪ɾa]
  


• 
  .mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}
  
  
  
  
  

  Audio (Latin America)

  (file)

  
  

Preposition

contra

1. 
   against, versus
   

   
   la lucha contra el prejuicio

   the fight against prejudice

   
   

   
   

Synonyms

• en oposición a

Antonyms

• a favor de

Derived terms

Related terms

• contrario


• encontrar

Descendants

• Hiligaynon: kontra
  


• Tagalog: kontra
  

Noun

contra m (plural contras)

1. 
   con (disadvantage)
   

   Antonym: pro

   
   

Adverb

contra

1. 
   opposite, facing
   

Synonyms

• en oposición a

Antonyms

• a favor de

Further reading

• “contra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams