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Where does “contrā” come from?

contrā (Latin) comes from Latin ubī, from Latin cubī, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei.

Ancestry of “contrā”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinubī—
2Latincubī—
3Proto-Italic*kʷuðei—
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