contraho
Latin
Etymology
From con- + trahō (“drag”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tra.hoː/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪rä(ɦ)oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tra.o/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪räo]
Verb
contrahō (present infinitive contrahere, perfect active contrāxī, supine contractum); third conjugation
- I draw, bring or drag several objects together; collect, assemble, gather, amass.
- Synonyms: compellō, glomerō, cōgō, conferō, consociō, congerō, cōnstruō, coniungō, iungō, conciliō, concieō, concitō, conserō, illigō, colligō, ligō, convehō, committō, reficiō
- Antonyms: distraho, absolvo, solvo, persolvo, rumpo, dissolvo
- I bring about, accomplish, execute
- Synonyms: perficio, conficio, absolvo, fungor, defungor, patro, ago, expleo, cumulo, impleo, profligo
- I get, cause, produce, make.
- Synonyms: acquiro, apiscor, sumo, emo, pario, comparo, nanciscor, concilio
- I make a contract, conclude, transact, do business, contract.
- I draw close or together, draw in, contract, compress, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish.
- Synonyms: stīpō, congerō
- (architecture) I make smaller or tapering, narrow.
- I draw in, lessen, check, restrain.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of contrahō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | contrahō | contrahis | contrahit | contrahimus | contrahitis | contrahunt |
| imperfect | contrahēbam | contrahēbās | contrahēbat | contrahēbāmus | contrahēbātis | contrahēbant | |
| future | contraham | contrahēs | contrahet | contrahēmus | contrahētis | contrahent | |
| perfect | contrāxī | contrāxistī | contrāxit | contrāximus | contrāxistis | contrāxērunt, contrāxēre | |
| pluperfect | contrāxeram | contrāxerās | contrāxerat | contrāxerāmus | contrāxerātis | contrāxerant | |
| future perfect | contrāxerō | contrāxeris | contrāxerit | contrāxerimus | contrāxeritis | contrāxerint | |
| passive | present | contrahor | contraheris, contrahere | contrahitur | contrahimur | contrahiminī | contrahuntur |
| imperfect | contrahēbar | contrahēbāris, contrahēbāre | contrahēbātur | contrahēbāmur | contrahēbāminī | contrahēbantur | |
| future | contrahar | contrahēris, contrahēre | contrahētur | contrahēmur | contrahēminī | contrahentur | |
| perfect | contractus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | contractus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | contractus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | contraham | contrahās | contrahat | contrahāmus | contrahātis | contrahant |
| imperfect | contraherem | contraherēs | contraheret | contraherēmus | contraherētis | contraherent | |
| perfect | contrāxerim | contrāxerīs | contrāxerit | contrāxerīmus | contrāxerītis | contrāxerint | |
| pluperfect | contrāxissem | contrāxissēs | contrāxisset | contrāxissēmus | contrāxissētis | contrāxissent | |
| passive | present | contrahar | contrahāris, contrahāre | contrahātur | contrahāmur | contrahāminī | contrahantur |
| imperfect | contraherer | contraherēris, contraherēre | contraherētur | contraherēmur | contraherēminī | contraherentur | |
| perfect | contractus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | contractus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | contrahe | — | — | contrahite | — |
| future | — | contrahitō | contrahitō | — | contrahitōte | contrahuntō | |
| passive | present | — | contrahere | — | — | contrahiminī | — |
| future | — | contrahitor | contrahitor | — | — | contrahuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | contrahere | contrāxisse | contractūrum esse | contrahī | contractum esse | contractum īrī | |
| participles | contrahēns | — | contractūrus | — | contractus | contrahendus, contrahundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| contrahendī | contrahendō | contrahendum | contrahendō | contractum | contractū | ||
Derived terms
- contrāctē
- contrāctiō
- contrāctor
- contrāctōrium
- contrāctūra
- contrāctus
Related terms
- abstrahō
- attrahō
- circumtrahō
- dētrahō
- distrahō
- extrahō
- intertrahō
- intrahō
- obtrahō
- pertrahō
- prōtrahō
- retrahō
- subtrahō
- supertrahō
- trahō
Descendants
- Catalan: contraure, contreure
- Dutch: contraheren
- English: contract
- French: contracter
- Italian: contrarre
- Norwegian Bokmål: kontrakt
- Portuguese: contrair
- Romanian: contracta, contrage
- Sicilian: cuntràjiri
- Spanish: contraer
References
- “contraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contraho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
- to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
- to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
- to do no business with a man: nihil cum aliquo contrahere
- to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
- to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
- to concentrate troops: conducere, contrahere copias
- to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)
- to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)