contrarium

contrarium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈtraː.ri.um/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈtra.ri.um/, [kon̪ˈt̪räːrium]

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).

Case	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