contrarius
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From contrā (“against”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈtraː.ri.us/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈtra.ri.us/, [kon̪ˈt̪räːrius]
Adjective
[edit]contrārius (feminine contrāria, neuter contrārium, adverb contrāriē); first/second-declension adjective
- opposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting, witherward
- ex contrario ― on the contrary (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 30)
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: Contreras
- Ancient borrowings:
- Learned borrowings:
References
[edit]- “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.