Where the Romanian word “contra” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (prep.):
Din fr. contre, lat., it. contra.
→ French · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (vb.):
Din fr. contrer.
→ French · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (adv.):
Din fr. contre, lat., it. contra.
→ French · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French contre ← Italian contra ← Latin contrā
- In film dialogue
- 6.7 times per million words · number 5,218 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 4.2 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 60 297 28 143 93 - Swap in a synonym
- împotriva (Made in Romanian), contrazice (Made in Romanian), dimpotrivă (Made in Romanian), împotrivă (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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