Where does “contra-” come from?
contra- (English) comes from Latin contrā, from Latin ubī, from Latin cubī, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei — where.
contra- (English): against
Definitions
- against
Ancestry of “contra-”, step by step
Words derived from “contra-”
- contraceptive
- contralateral
- contradistinction
- contraindication
- contravariant
- contrapositive
- contraindicate
- contralaterally
- contraflow
- contrasexual
- contradistinguish
- immunocontraceptive
- anticontraceptive
- contranatural
- contracyclical
- contrametric
- contrafactive
- contracultural
- contravariantly
- contrasuggestible
- contracyclically
- contranym
- contra-octave
- contrafield