contrarium

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Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

contrārium

  1. inflection of contrārius:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

contrārium n (genitive contrāriī or contrārī); second declension

  1. the opposite, contrary, reverse
    ex contrāriō ― on the contrary, on the other hand

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative contrārium contrāria
genitive contrāriī
contrārī1 		contrāriōrum
dative contrāriō contrāriīs
accusative contrārium contrāria
ablative contrāriō contrāriīs
vocative contrārium contrāria

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
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