contrarius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Italic *-teros

Proto-Italic *komterosder.

Proto-Italic *komterād

Latin contrā

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -ārius

Latin contrārius

From contrā (“against”) + -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtraː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtraː.ri.us]

Adjective

contrārius (feminine contrāria, neuter contrārium, adverb contrāriē); first/second-declension adjective

1. opposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting, witherward

   ex contrario ― on the contrary (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 30)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	contrārius	contrāria	contrārium		contrāriī	contrāriae	contrāria
genitive	contrāriī	contrāriae	contrāriī		contrāriōrum	contrāriārum	contrāriōrum
dative	contrāriō	contrāriae	contrāriō		contrāriīs
accusative	contrārium	contrāriam	contrārium		contrāriōs	contrāriās	contrāria
ablative	contrāriō	contrāriā	contrāriō		contrāriīs
vocative	contrārie	contrāria	contrārium		contrāriī	contrāriae	contrāria

Derived terms

• contrārietās

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: Contreras
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: kundruall
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kuθrọl
    • Welsh: cythraul
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Catalan: contrari
  • → English: contrary
  • → French: contraire
    • → Romanian: contrar
  • → Galician: contrario
  • → Italian: contrario
    • → Romanian: contrariu
  • → Occitan: contrari
  • → Portuguese: contrário
  • → Spanish: contrario, contrallo (obsolete; /rjo/ > /ljo/ > /ʎo/)

References

• “contrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "contrarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “contrarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) in an opposite direction: in contrarium; in contrarias partes
    
  • to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
    
  • (ambiguous) in an opposite direction: in contrarium; in contrarias partes
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “contrary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.