contrair
Portuguese
verb
Definitions
- (pronominal) to contract to draw together, to become shorter or narrower
- (pronominal) to contract to cause to contract
- (grammar) to contract to become shorter by omitting some phonemes
- (transitive) to contract to acquire an illness
- (transitive) to acquire to come to have
Etymology
Derived from Latin contrahere, contraho.
Origin
Latin
contrahere, contraho
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- contractiō, contractiōnem Latin
- contrahere, contraho Latin
- kontrahieren German
- contraer Spanish, Castilian
- contração Portuguese