contradico
Italian
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.traːˈdiː.koː/, [kɔn̪t̪räːˈd̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.traˈdi.ko/, [kon̪t̪räˈd̪iːko]
Verb
contrādīcō (present infinitive contrādīcere, perfect active contrādīxī, supine contrādictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative
- (often with dative) to speak or allege against, oppose; contradict, gainsay
- c. 530-533 C.E., Justinian I, Corpus Juris Civilis: Pandects, 11.7.14.13
- huic contradici potest: "ergo pietatis gratia funerasti"
- In this instance it can be alleged against the plaintiff, "Therefore you have conducted the funeral through a sense of duty."
- c. 530-533 C.E., Justinian I, Corpus Juris Civilis: Pandects, 11.7.14.13
Usage notes
- Often written separately or inverted, especially during the pre-Augustan period of writing
Conjugation
1Archaic.
Descendants
- Catalan: contradir
- English: contradict
- French: contredire
- Galician: contradicir
- Italian: contraddire
- Portuguese: contradizer
- Romanian: contrazice
- Spanish: contradecir
References
- “contradico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contradico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contradico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
- to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)
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