contraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒntɹə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑntɹə/

前置詞

contra

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

同意語

• against, anti

反意語

• for, pro

関連する語

副詞

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. Contrary to something.
   • 1893 November 30, “The W.C.T.U. Convention. Interesting Reports Considered in Relation to the Several Departments of the Work. Suggested Lines of Development—Programme for the Closing Day.”, in The Daily Colonist, volume LXX, number 148, Victoria, B.C., page 3, column 1:

     […] it is useless to pray “Thy kingdom come” and vote contra or stay away from the polls; […]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

名詞

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

   a contra position; a contra entry

   The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.

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.
   • 2001, Ellen Koskoff, editor, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America, Garland Publishing, page 232:

     Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

派生語

動詞

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

1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

   to contra a position (an entry)

アナグラム

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɔn.traː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔn.tra]

副詞

contrā (not comparable)

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

前置詞

contrā (+ accusative)

1. against
2. across from, opposite

派生語

• contrārius

派生した語

参照

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
    
  • it is a breach of duty to..: contra officium est c. Inf.
    
  • for the advantage of the state; in the interests of the state: e re publica (opp. contra rem p.)
    
  • a thing is illegal: aliquid contra legem est
    
  • to foster revolutionary projects: contra rem publicam sentire
    
  • to be guilty of high treason: contra rem publicam facere
    
  • to conspire with some one: conspirare cum aliquo (contra aliquem)
    
  • against all law, human and divine: contra ius fasque
    
• contra in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

接頭辞

contra-

1. Against; in opposition to.

同意語

• (against): anti-, counter-, dis-, ob-

派生語

関連する語

• contra

アナグラム

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