contrarius

contrarius

Latin

Etymology

From contrā (“against”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈtraː.ri.us/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪räːriʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈtra.ri.us/, [kon̪ˈt̪räːrius]

Adjective

contrārius (feminine contrāria, neuter contrārium, adverb contrāriē); first/second-declension adjective

1. opposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting, witherward

   ex contrario ― on the contrary (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 30)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	contrārius	contrāria	contrārium		contrāriī	contrāriae	contrāria
Genitive	contrāriī	contrāriae	contrāriī		contrāriōrum	contrāriārum	contrāriōrum
Dative	contrāriō		contrāriō		contrāriīs
Accusative	contrārium	contrāriam	contrārium		contrāriōs	contrāriās	contrāria
Ablative	contrāriō	contrāriā	contrāriō		contrāriīs
Vocative	contrārie	contrāria	contrārium		contrāriī	contrāriae	contrāria

Derived terms

• contrārietās

Descendants

• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: kundruall
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kuθrọl
    • Welsh: cythraul
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Catalan: contrari
  • → English: contrary
  • → French: contraire
    • → Romanian: contrar
  • → Galician: contrario
  • → Italian: contrario
    • → Romanian: contrariu
  • → Occitan: contrari
  • → Portuguese: contrário
  • → Spanish: contrario, contrallo (obsolete; /rjo/ > /ljo/ > /ʎo/)

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