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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
contrārium
- inflection of contrārius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Noun
contrārium n (genitive contrāriī or contrārī); second declension
- the opposite, contrary, reverse
- ex contrāriō ― on the contrary, on the other hand
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “contrarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “contrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- contrarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) in an opposite direction: in contrarium; in contrarias partes