contraho
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tra.hoː/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪rä(ɦ)oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.tra.o/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪räo]
Verb
[edit]contrahō (present infinitive contrahere, perfect active contrāxī, supine contractum); third conjugation
- to draw, bring or drag several objects together; collect, assemble, gather, amass
- to bring about, accomplish, execute
- to get, cause, produce, make
- to make a contract, conclude, transact, do business, contract
- to draw close or together, draw in, contract, compress, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish
- (architecture) to make smaller or tapering, narrow
- to draw in, lessen, check, restrain
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of contrahō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: contraure, contreure
- Dutch: contraheren
- English: contract
- French: contracter
- Italian: contrarre
- Norwegian Bokmål: kontrakt
- Portuguese: contrair
- Romanian: contracta, contrage
- Sicilian: cuntràjiri
- Spanish: contraer
References
[edit]- “contraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contraho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
- to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
- to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
- to do no business with a man: nihil cum aliquo contrahere
- to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
- to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
- to concentrate troops: conducere, contrahere copias
- to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)
- to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)