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Latin
Etymology
From con- + trahō (“drag”).
Pronunciation
Verb
contrahō (present infinitive contrahere, perfect active contrāxī, supine contractum); third conjugation
- to draw, bring or drag several objects together; collect, assemble, gather, amass
- Synonyms: compellō, glomerō, cōgō, conferō, consociō, congerō, cōnstruō, coniungō, iungō, conciliō, concieō, concitō, conserō, illigō, colligō, ligō, convehō, committō, reficiō
- Antonyms: distraho, absolvo, solvo, persolvo, rumpo, dissolvo
- to bring about, accomplish, execute
- Synonyms: perficio, conficio, absolvo, fungor, defungor, patro, ago, expleo, cumulo, impleo, profligo
- to get, cause, produce, make
- Synonyms: acquiro, apiscor, sumo, emo, pario, comparo, nanciscor, concilio
- to make a contract, conclude, transact, do business, contract
- to draw close or together, draw in, contract, compress, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish
- Synonyms: stīpō, congerō
- (architecture) to make smaller or tapering, narrow
- to draw in, lessen, check, restrain
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References
- “contraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contraho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
- to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
- to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
- to do no business with a man: nihil cum aliquo contrahere
- to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
- to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
- to concentrate troops: conducere, contrahere copias
- to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)