contractus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of contrahō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈtrak.tus/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈtrak.tus/, [kon̪ˈt̪räkt̪us]
Participle
contractus (feminine contracta, neuter contractum); first/second-declension participle
- collected, accomplished, contracted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | contractus | contracta | contractum | contractī | contractae | contracta | |
| Genitive | contractī | contractae | contractī | contractōrum | contractārum | contractōrum | |
| Dative | contractō | contractō | contractīs | ||||
| Accusative | contractum | contractam | contractum | contractōs | contractās | contracta | |
| Ablative | contractō | contractā | contractō | contractīs | |||
| Vocative | contracte | contracta | contractum | contractī | contractae | contracta | |
Adjective
contractus (feminine contracta, neuter contractum, comparative contractior); first/second-declension adjective
- narrow, restricted, pinched, cramped
- abridged, terse
- restrained
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | contractus | contracta | contractum | contractī | contractae | contracta | |
| Genitive | contractī | contractae | contractī | contractōrum | contractārum | contractōrum | |
| Dative | contractō | contractō | contractīs | ||||
| Accusative | contractum | contractam | contractum | contractōs | contractās | contracta | |
| Ablative | contractō | contractā | contractō | contractīs | |||
| Vocative | contracte | contracta | contractum | contractī | contractae | contracta | |
Descendants
- Italian: contratto
Noun
contractus m (genitive contractūs); fourth declension
- collection
- contraction
- contract, agreement
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | contractus | contractūs |
| Genitive | contractūs | contractuum |
| Dative | contractuī | contractibus |
| Accusative | contractum | contractūs |
| Ablative | contractū | contractibus |
| Vocative | contractus | contractūs |
Descendants
- Catalan: contracte
- → Galician: contrato
- → German: Kontrakt
- Italian: contratto
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kontrakt
- → Old French: contract
- French: contrat
- → Middle Dutch: contract
- Dutch: contract
- Afrikaans: kontrak
- Negerhollands: kontragt
- → Caribbean Hindustani: kantrák
- → Caribbean Javanese: kontrak
- → Indonesian: kontrak
- → Papiamentu: kontrakt
- → West Frisian: kontrakt
- Dutch: contract
- → Middle English: contract
- English: contract
- → Burmese: ကန်ထရိုက် (kanhta.ruik)
- → Welsh: contract
- Tok Pisin: kontrak
- English: contract
- Norman: contrat
- Old Portuguese: contreito
- Portuguese: contreito, contrato (borrowing)
- Piedmontese: contrat
- Romanian: contract
- Russian: контра́кт (kontrákt)
- Spanish: contrato
References
- “contractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contractus 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)
- contractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “contractus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contractus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “contractus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin