contra
pronunciation
How to pronounce contra in British English:
UK ['kɒntrə]
How to pronounce contra in American English:
US ['kɒntrə]
Word Origin
- contra
- mid-14c., from Latin contra (prep. and adv.) "against," originally "in comparison with," ablative singular feminine of *com-teros, from Old Latin com "with, together" (see com-) + -tr, zero degree of the comparative suffix -ter-.
- Contra (n.)
- 1981, "anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan," short for Spanish contrarrevolucionario "counter-revolutionary."
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