contradictor
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin contrādictor.
Noun
[edit]contradictor (plural contradictors)
- Alternative form of contradicter
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:
- “That was in Casco,” his wife contradicted immediately. She spoke in the unmistakable tones of a veteran contradictor.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From contrādīcō (“I speak against; contradict”), from contrā (“against”) + dīcō (“I say, speak”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.traːˈdik.tor/, [kɔn̪t̪räːˈd̪ɪkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.traˈdik.tor/, [kon̪t̪räˈd̪ikt̪or]
Noun
[edit]contrādictor m (genitive contrādictōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | contrādictor | contrādictōrēs |
genitive | contrādictōris | contrādictōrum |
dative | contrādictōrī | contrādictōribus |
accusative | contrādictōrem | contrādictōrēs |
ablative | contrādictōre | contrādictōribus |
vocative | contrādictor | contrādictōrēs |
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: contradictor
- French: contradicteur
- Italian: contradditore
- Portuguese: contraditor
- Romanian: contrazicător
- Spanish: contradictor
References
[edit]- “contradictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- contradictor 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)
- contradictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin contrādictor.
Adjective
[edit]contradictor (feminine contradictora, masculine plural contradictores, feminine plural contradictoras)
- contradictory
- 2015 July 31, “La ‘Colección Mexicana’ en Chile: una historia de solidaridad”, in El País[1]:
- El espíritu contradictor, el uso de nuevos y variados ingredientes, texturas y colores para crear formas desafiantes, figuras inéditas o ambientes cotidianos pero redescubiertos, o el expresionismo abstracto como significado, fueron algunas de las aportaciones fundamentales de esta riada de pintores, por nacimiento o por elección, mexicanos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
[edit]contradictor m (plural contradictores, feminine contradictora, feminine plural contradictoras)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “contradictor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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