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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contrāriantem, form of contrāriāns, present active participle of contrāriō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon.traˈrjan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: con‧tra‧riàn‧te
Participle
contrariante (plural contrarianti)
- present participle of contrariare
Adjective
contrariante (plural contrarianti)
- irritating
- Synonym: irritante
- (heraldry) counterchanged
- (linguistics) denoting opposition or contrariety (of prefixes)
- In italiano, anti- è un prefisso contrariante. ― In Italian, anti- is an oppositional prefix.
Further reading
- contrariante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Spanish
Noun
contrariante m or f by sense (plural contrariantes)
- contrarian