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Latin
Etymology
From contrā (“against”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
contrārius (feminine contrāria, neuter contrārium, adverb contrāriē); first/second-declension adjective
- opposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting, witherward
- ex contrario ― on the contrary (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 30)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Ibero-Romance:
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References
- “contrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contrarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- contrarius 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
- to discuss both sides of a question: in utramque partem, in contrarias partes disputare (De Or. 1. 34)
- (ambiguous) in an opposite direction: in contrarium; in contrarias partes
- “contrary”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.