Word Origin Summary

Contra is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *komterādProto-Italicinherited from
2. *ḱómProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• kontrolli

  Finnish · derived from

• contreien

  Dutch · derived from

• kontra

  HBS · derived from

• kondre

  Sranan Tongo · derived from

• Géigend

  Luxembourgish · derived from

• contrayerva

  English · derived from

• contrarrestar

  Spanish · borrowed from

• kantri

  Finnish · borrowed from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root