contrair

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contrahere, with change of conjugation.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: con‧tra‧ir

Verb

contrair (first-person singular present contraio, first-person singular preterite contraí, past participle contraído)

  1. (pronominal, intransitive) to contract (to draw together; to become shorter or narrower)
  2. (pronominal, transitive) to contract (to cause to contract)
  3. (grammar, intransitive) to contract (to become shorter by omitting some phonemes)
  4. (transitive) to contract (to acquire an illness)
  5. (transitive) to acquire (to come to have)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Scots

Preposition

contrair

  1. against; in opposition to