Fromcontrā(“against”) +-ārius.
contrārius (femininecontrāria,neutercontrārium,adverbcontrāriē);first/second-declension adjective
- opposite,opposed,contrary,conflicting,witherward
- excontrario ―on the contrary (Caesar,de Bello Gallico, VII, 30)
First/second-declension adjective.
- Ibero-Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Learned borrowings:
- “contrarius”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contrarius”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "contrarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- contrarius inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “contrary”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.