contrarius
Latin
Etymology
From contrā (“against”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈtraː.ri.us/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈtra.ri.us/, [kon̪ˈt̪räːrius]
Adjective
contrārius (feminine contrāria, neuter contrārium, adverb contrāriē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | contrārius | contrāria | contrārium | contrāriī | contrāriae | contrāria | |
Genitive | contrāriī | contrāriae | contrāriī | contrāriōrum | contrāriārum | contrāriōrum | |
Dative | contrāriō | contrāriō | contrāriīs | ||||
Accusative | contrārium | contrāriam | contrārium | contrāriōs | contrāriās | contrāria | |
Ablative | contrāriō | contrāriā | contrāriō | contrāriīs | |||
Vocative | contrārie | contrāria | contrārium | contrāriī | contrāriae | contrāria |
Descendants
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’s 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
- (ambiguous) in an opposite direction: in contrarium; in contrarias partes
- “contrary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.