Where does “contrar” come from?
contrar (Romanian) comes from French contraire, from Latin contrarius, from Latin contrā, from Latin ubī, from Latin cubī, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei.
contrar (Romanian): contrary; opposite
Ancestry of “contrar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | contraire | opposite; contradictory; hostile, unfavorable |
| 2 | Latin | contrarius | opposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting,... |
| 3 | Latin | contrā | — |
| 4 | Latin | ubī | — |
| 5 | Latin | cubī | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *kʷuðei | — |