contrayente

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kontɾaˈʝente/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾaˈʝẽn̪.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): /kontɾaˈʝente/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾaˈʝẽn̪.t̪e] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /kontɾaˈʃente/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾaˈʃẽn̪.t̪e] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kontɾaˈʒente/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾaˈʒẽn̪.t̪e] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: con‧tra‧yen‧te

Noun

contrayente m or f by sense (plural contrayentes)

1. bride or groom; part of the happy couple
   • 2015 September 19, “La conga de Rajoy y el PP”, in El País‎^[1]:

     […] amigos de la infancia del contrayente

     childhood friends of the couple

Further reading

• “contrayente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025