contra

Ultimately from Latin contra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntɹə/

contra

1. against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to

• against, anti

• for, pro

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. contrary to something

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

contra (plural contras)

1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
2. (politics) A conservative; pejorative slang originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
3. (accounting) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

   a contra position; a contra entry

   The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.

4. (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
5. (dance) A contra dance.
6. (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
   • 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.

     Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)

1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

   to contra a position (an entry)

• Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon

From Latin contra.

contra

1. against

From Latin contra.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔn.tɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.tɾa/

contra

1. against
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     Més endavant, va parlar contra la gent sense família

     But before, he spoke against people without family

contra m (plural contres)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

• contra-
• contrari

• “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contra” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “contra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

contra

1. against

• 2000, Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

contra

1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

• contrasissi

contra

1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

• carton

From Latin contra.

contra

1. against

contra f (plural contras)

1. (usually in the plural) shutter

• “contra” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontra/, [ˈkon̪.t̪r̺ä]
• Hyphenation: cón‧tra
• Rhymes: -ontra

From Latin contrā.

contra

contra

1. Obsolete form of contro.

• contraposto

Inflected form of contrare

contra

1. third-person singular present indicative of contrare
2. second-person singular imperative of contrare

• tronca

From Latin contra.

contra

1. against

From cum (older com), as in intrā from in, extrā from ex etc. Confer with the semantics of English with.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.traː/, [ˈkɔn.traː]

contrā

1. against
2. opposite to
3. contrary to
4. otherwise
5. in return, back

contrā (+ accusative)

1. against
2. across from, opposite

• contrarius

• contra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
    
  • it is a breach of duty to..: contra officium est c. Inf.
    
  • for the advantage of the state; in the interests of the state: e re publica (opp. contra rem p.)
    
  • a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    
  • to foster revolutionary projects: contra rem publicam sentire
    
  • to be guilty of high treason: contra rem publicam facere
    
  • to conspire with some one: conspirare cum aliquo (contra aliquem)
    
  • against all law, human and divine: contra ius fasque
    
• contra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin contra.

contra

1. against

From Latin contra.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõ.tɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: con‧tra

contra

1. against

• a favor
• em prol
• em favor
• em defesa

• “contra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French contre, Italian contra, Latin contra. Doublet of the inherited către.

contra

1. against, versus

contra

1. against, opposed to, opposite
2. in exchange for

From Latin contra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontɾa/, [ˈkõn̪t̪ɾa]

• Audio (Latin America)

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contra

1. against, versus

   la lucha contra el prejuicio

   the fight against prejudice

• en oposición a

• a favor de

• contrario
• encontrar

• Hiligaynon: kontra
• Tagalog: kontra

contra m (plural contras)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

contra

1. opposite, facing

• en oposición a

• a favor de

• “contra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.