different between anti vs contra

English

Etymology

Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn.ti/
• Rhymes: -ænti
• Homophone: auntie (in some accents)

Adjective

anti (comparative more anti, superlative most anti)

1. Opposed to something.
2. (chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

Coordinate terms

• (chemistry): syn

Translations

Noun

anti (plural antis)

1. A person opposed to a concept or principle.

Antonyms

• pro

Translations

Preposition

anti

1. (rare) Alternative form of anti-

See also

• anti-

Anagrams

• NAIT, TINA, Tain, Tani, Tian, Tina, ain't, ani?, nait, tain, tian, tina

Finnish

Etymology

From the root of antaa. Cognate with Estonian and.

Noun

anti

1. (finance) offering, issue (of shares, bonds etc).
2. the achieved outcome or result (of a meeting etc.)

Declension

Related terms

• osakeanti

Anagrams

• nait, tain, tina

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

anti (A·chik)

1. week
2. market

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.ti/
• Hyphenation: àn?ti

Adverb

anti (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of ante (all senses)
   • 13th century, Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (Gianfranco Contini, Poeti del Duecento, Riccardo Ricciardi (1960), vol. 2, p.461):

     [...] né fe’ amor anti che gentil core ¶ né gentil core anti ch’amor, natura: [...]

     [...] neither before the gentle heart was Love ¶ nor Love ere gentle heart by Nature made: [...]

   • 1282, Restoro d'Arezzo, La composizione del mondo colle sue cascioni, Accademia della Crusca (1976), p. 174:

     [...] sapemo bene che l'acqua non se stregne e ghiacia e·lloco caldo, anti se ghiacia e·lloco là o' non pò lo sole, molto fredissimo [...]

     [...] we know well that water does not contract and freeze in a hot place, rather it freezes in a very cold place, where the Sun cannot [reach] [...]

Old High German

Alternative forms

• enti
• ande
• endi
• indi
• inti
• inte
• int
• unti
• unte
• unta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anti/

Conjunction

anti

1. and

References

1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Portuguese

Adjective

anti (invariable, comparable)

1. (chemistry) anti (that has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°)

Quechua

Adjective

anti

1. eastern

Noun

anti

1. east

Declension

Synonyms

• intichay

Coordinate terms

• chincha
• kunti
• qulla

Spanish

Etymology

From anti-.

Adjective

anti (invariable)

1. anti-, opposing

Further reading

• “anti” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English auntie.

Noun

anti

1. aunt (polite term for any woman a generation older than oneself)

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English aunty, auntie.

Noun

anti

1. paternal aunt; one's father's sister

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nt??/

Preposition

contra

1. against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to

Synonyms

• against, anti

Antonyms

• for, pro

Translations

Adverb

contra (comparative more contra, superlative most contra)

1. contrary to something

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

Translations

Noun

contra (plural contras)

1. (business) A deal to swap goods or services.
2. (politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
3. (accounting) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

4. (music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
5. (dance) A contra dance.
6. (obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
   • 2001, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.

     Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.

Translations

Verb

contra (third-person singular simple present contras, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

1. (accounting) To undo; to reverse.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?k?n.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kon.t?a/

Adverb

contra

1. against

Noun

contra m (plural contres)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

Related terms

• contra-
• contrari

Further reading

• “contra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contra” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “contra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

contra

1. against

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Finnish

Noun

contra

1. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter)

Declension

Synonyms

• contrasissi

French

Verb

contra

1. third-person singular past historic of contrer

Anagrams

• carton

Galician

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

1. (usually in the plural) shutter

Further reading

• “contra” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kon.tra/
• Hyphenation: cón?tra
• Rhymes: -ontra

Etymology 1

From Latin contr?.

Adverb

contra

Preposition

contra

1. Obsolete form of contro.

See also

• contrapposto

Etymology 2

Inflected form of contrare

Verb

contra

1. third-person singular present indicative of contrare
2. second-person singular imperative of contrare

Anagrams

• tronca

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *komter?d, abl.sg.f. of *komteros (“the other of the two who meet, opposite”). The abl.sg.m./n. of the same is continued in Latin contr?-, cognate to Oscan contrud. Ultimately a suffixed form of Latin cum, Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”), like intr? from in, extr? from ex, but unlike these lacking external cognates, and therefore of Italic origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.tra?/, [?k?n?t??ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.tra/, [?k?n?t???]

Adverb

contr? (not comparable)

1. against
2. opposite to
3. contrary to
4. otherwise
5. in return, back

Preposition

contr? (+ accusative)

1. against
2. across from, opposite

Derived terms

• contr?rius

Descendants

References

Further reading

• contra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• contra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• contra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin contra.

Preposition

contra

1. against

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kõ.t??/
• Hyphenation: con?tra

Preposition

contra

1. against

Antonyms

• a favor
• em prol
• em favor
• em defesa

Further reading

• “contra” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French contre, Italian contra, Latin contr?. Doublet of the inherited c?tre.

Preposition

contra

1. against, versus

Adverb

contra

1. against, opposed to, opposite
2. in exchange for

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin contr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kont?a/, [?kõn?.t??a]

Preposition

contra

1. against, versus

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

Derived terms

Related terms

• contrario
• encontrar

Descendants

• Hiligaynon: kontra
• Tagalog: kontra

Noun

contra m (plural contras)

1. con (disadvantage)

   Antonym: pro

Noun

contra f (plural contras)

1. antidote
2. counterpunch

Adverb

contra

1. opposite, facing

   Synonym: en oposición a

   Antonym: a favor de

Further reading

• “contra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams