contra

Ultimately from Latin contrā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntɹə/

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contra

1. Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.

• against, anti

• for, pro

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. Contrary to something.
   • 1893 November 30, “The W.C.T.U. Convention. Interesting Reports Considered in Relation to the Several Departments of the Work. Suggested Lines of Development—Programme for the Closing Day.”, in The Daily Colonist, volume LXX, number 148, Victoria, B.C., page 3, column 1:

     […] it is useless to pray “Thy kingdom come” and vote contra or stay away from the polls; […]

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

contra (plural contras)

1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
2. (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
3. (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

   Synonym: counterentry

   a contra position; a contra entry

   The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.

4. (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
5. (dance) A contra dance.
6. (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
   • 2001, Ellen Koskoff, editor, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America, Garland Publishing, page 232:

     Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

   to contra a position (an entry)

• Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon

From Latin contrā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontɾa/,
• Rhymes: -ontɾa
• Hyphenation: con‧tra

contra

1. alongside, beside, next to

   Synonym: xunto

2. forward, in front

   Synonym: delantre

3. against (reduced)

   Synonym: escontra

• escontra

¡contra!

1. interjection of exclamation or anger

   Synonyms: carape, meca

Inherited from Latin contrā.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -ɔntɾa
• Hyphenation: con‧tra

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contra

1. against
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     Més endavant, va parlar contra la gent sense família

     But before, he spoke against people without family

contra m (plural contres)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

• contra-
• contrari

• “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “contra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin contrā.

contra

1. against

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

From Spanish contra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontrɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ontrɑ

contra

1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

• contrasissi

• “contra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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contra

1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

• carton

From Latin contrā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontɾa/
• Rhymes: -ontɾa
• Hyphenation: con‧tra

contra

1. against

• contra de
• pola contra

contra f (plural contras)

1. (usually in the plural) shutter

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “contra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “contra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “contra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “contra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “contra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “contra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tra/
• Rhymes: -ontra
• Hyphenation: cón‧tra

From Latin contrā.

contra

1. (archaic) Alternative form of contro (“against”)

• → Maltese: kontra
• → Turkish: kontra

• contra-

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

contra

1. inflection of contrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Tronca, tronca

From Latin contrā.

contra

1. against

From Proto-Italic *komterād, ablative singular feminine of *komteros (“the other of the two who meet, opposite”). The ablative singular masculine/neuter of the same is continued in Latin contrō-, cognate to Oscan contrud. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱómteros, from *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”) +‎ *-teros (contrastive suffix); thus, a doublet of cum, comparable to the relation between intrā and in, and extrā and ex, but unlike these lacking external cognates, and therefore of Italic origin.^[1]

The change from instrumental/ablative to accusative is caused by *-teros used adverbially.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.traː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tra/,

contrā (not comparable)

1. against
2. opposite to
3. contrary to
4. otherwise
5. in return, back

contrā (+ accusative)

1. against
2. across from, opposite

• contrārius

• “contra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contra 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)
• contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
    
  • it is a breach of duty to..: contra officium est c. Inf.
    
  • for the advantage of the state; in the interests of the state: e re publica (opp. contra rem p.)
    
  • a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    
  • to foster revolutionary projects: contra rem publicam sentire
    
  • to be guilty of high treason: contra rem publicam facere
    
  • to conspire with some one: conspirare cum aliquo (contra aliquem)
    
  • against all law, human and divine: contra ius fasque
    
• contra in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin contra.

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contra

1. against

From Latin contrā.

• Rhymes: -õtɾɐ
• Hyphenation: con‧tra

contra

1. against

   Antonyms: a favor, em prol, em favor, em defesa

   Ele é contra a proposta.

   He is against the proposal.

   Tiveram que nadar contra a corrente.

   They had to swim against the current.

   Não é justo, são três contra um.

   It's not fair, it's three against/on one.

• contra-
• contrário

• “contra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from French contre, Italian contra, Latin contrā. Doublet of the inherited către.

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contra

1. against, versus

contra

1. against, opposed to, opposite
2. in exchange for

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Inherited from Latin contrā. Old Spanish had cuentra as well, with diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/. As the word was generally atonic, the unstressed variant contra prevailed over time.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontɾa/

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• Rhymes: -ontɾa
• Syllabification: con‧tra

contra

1. against, versus

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

   la lucha contra el prejuicio

   the fight against prejudice

• Hiligaynon: kontra
• Tagalog: kontra

contra m (plural contras)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

contra f (plural contras)

1. antidote
2. counterpunch
3. counterattack
4. Contra (guerrilla)

contra

1. opposite, facing

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

• “contra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “contra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 182