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6-letter words (4 found)

CANTOR,CARTON,CONTRA,CRATON,

5-letter words (15 found)

ACORN,ACTON,ACTOR,CANTO,CARON,COTAN,NARCO,OCTAN,ORANT,RACON,ROTAN,TAROC,TORAN,TRONA,TRONC,

4-letter words (26 found)

ACRO,ARCO,ATOC,CANT,CARN,CART,COAT,CORN,CRAN,CRON,NARC,NOTA,OCTA,ORCA,RANT,RATO,ROAN,RONT,ROTA,TACO,TARN,TARO,TORA,TORC,TORN,TRON,

3-letter words (29 found)

ACT,ANT,ARC,ART,CAN,CAR,CAT,CON,COR,COT,NAT,NOR,NOT,OAR,OAT,OCA,ORA,ORC,ORT,RAN,RAT,ROC,ROT,TAN,TAO,TAR,TOC,TON,TOR,

2-letter words (9 found)

AN,AR,AT,NA,NO,ON,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 83 words from contra according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of contra

contra

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin contrā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒntɹə/

Preposition

contra

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

Synonyms

  • against, anti

Antonyms

  • for, pro

Related terms

Translations

Adverb

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

  1. contrary to something

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:contrarily

Translations

Noun

contra (plural contras)

  1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
  2. (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
  3. (accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
    Synonym: counterentry
  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.

Translations

Verb

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

  1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

Translations

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin contrā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkontɾa/, [ˈkõn̪.t̪ɾa]

Preposition

contra

  1. alongside, beside, next to
    Synonym: xunto
  2. forward, in front
    Synonym: delantre
  3. against (reduced)
    Synonym: escontra

Related terms

  • escontra

Interjection

¡contra!

  1. interjection of exclamation or anger
    Synonyms: carape, meca

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin contrā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔn.tɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈkon.tɾa]

Adverb

contra

  1. against

Noun

contra m (plural contres)

  1. con (disadvantage)
    Antonym: pro

Related terms

  • contra-
  • contrari

Further reading

  • “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “contra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “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.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin contrā.

Adverb

contra

  1. against

References

  • Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish contra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkontrɑ/, [ˈko̞n̪t̪rɑ̝]

Noun

contra

  1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

Declension

Synonyms

  • contrasissi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “contra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

Verb

contra

  1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

Anagrams

  • carton

Galician

Etymology

From Latin contrā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkontɾɐ]

Preposition

contra

  1. against

Derived terms

  • contra de
  • pola contra

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

  1. (usually in the plural) shutter

References

  • “contra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “contra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “contra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “contra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “contra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkon.tra/
  • Rhymes: -ontra
  • Hyphenation: cón‧tra

Etymology 1

From Latin contrā.

Preposition

contra

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of contro (“against”)
Descendants
  • → Maltese: kontra
  • → Turkish: kontra

See also

  • contra-

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

contra

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

Anagrams

  • Tronca, tronca

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin contrā.

Preposition

contra

  1. against

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *komterād, ablative singular feminine of *komteros (“the other of the two who meet, opposite”). The ablative singular masculine/neuter of the same is continued in Latin contrō-, cognate to Oscan contrud. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱómteros, from *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”) +‎ *-teros (contrastive suffix); thus, a doublet of cum, comparable to the relation between intrā and in, and extrā and ex, but unlike these lacking external cognates, and therefore of Italic origin.

The change from instrumental/ablative to accusative is caused by *-teros used adverbially.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.traː/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪räː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tra/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪rä]

Adverb

contrā (not comparable)

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

Preposition

contrā (+ accusative)

  1. against
  2. across from, opposite

Derived terms

  • contrārius

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • contra in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Pronunciation

Preposition

contra

  1. against

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin contrā.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -õtɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: con‧tra

Preposition

contra

  1. against
    Antonyms: a favor, em prol, em favor, em defesa

Related terms

  • contra-
  • contrário

Further reading

  • “contra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Preposition

contra

  1. against, versus

Adverb

contra

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

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin contrā. Old Spanish had cuentra as well, with diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/. As the word was generally atonic, the unstressed variant contra prevailed over time.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkontɾa/ [ˈkõn̪.t̪ɾa]
  • (Latin America)
  • Rhymes: -ontɾa
  • Syllabification: con‧tra

Preposition

contra

  1. against, versus
    Synonym: en oposición a
    Antonym: a favor de

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Hiligaynon: kontra
  • Tagalog: kontra

Noun

contra m (plural contras)

  1. con (disadvantage)
    Antonym: pro

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

  1. antidote
  2. counterpunch
  3. counterattack
  4. Contra (guerrilla)

Derived terms

Adverb

contra

  1. opposite, facing
    Synonym: en oposición a
    Antonym: a favor de

Further reading

  • “contra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “contra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 182

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