controversus

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 *wert-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ttós

Proto-Italic *worssosder.

Latin vorsusder.

Latin versus

Latin controversus

From contrā + versus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.troːˈwɛr.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.troˈvɛr.sus]

Adjective

contrōversus (feminine contrōversa, neuter contrōversum); first/second-declension adjective

1. controversial, debatable, disputed
2. turned against or in the opposite direction

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	contrōversus	contrōversa	contrōversum		contrōversī	contrōversae	contrōversa
genitive	contrōversī	contrōversae	contrōversī		contrōversōrum	contrōversārum	contrōversōrum
dative	contrōversō	contrōversae	contrōversō		contrōversīs
accusative	contrōversum	contrōversam	contrōversum		contrōversōs	contrōversās	contrōversa
ablative	contrōversō	contrōversā	contrōversō		contrōversīs
vocative	contrōverse	contrōversa	contrōversum		contrōversī	contrōversae	contrōversa

Derived terms

• contrōversia
• contrōversiōsus

Descendants

• German: kontrovers
• Portuguese: controverso
• ⇒ Spanish: controvertido

References

• “controversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “controversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "controversus", 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)
• “controversus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.