Contra

See also: contra, contrà, and contra-

English

Etymology

Short for Spanish contrarrevolucionarios (“counter-revolutionaries”).

Noun

Contra (plural Contras)

1. A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s.

Derived terms

• Contragate

Translations

guerrilla groups

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 康特拉

• Finnish: contra (fi)
• Japanese: コントラ
• Persian: کنترا (kontrâ)
• Spanish: contra (es) f

Anagrams

• Cantor, Carnot, Carton, Catron, TRACON, cantor, carton, corant, craton, tracon

German

Etymology

From Latin contra. Doublet of Konter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔntʁa/

• Audio:

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Noun

Contra n (strong, genitive Contras, plural Contras)

1. alternative spelling of Kontra

Declension

Declension of Contra [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Contra	die	Contras
genitive	eines	des	Contras	der	Contras
dative	einem	dem	Contra	den	Contras
accusative	ein	das	Contra	die	Contras

Proper noun

Contra m (proper noun, strong, genitive Contras, plural Contras)

1. Contra

Declension

Declension of Contra [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Contra	die	Contras
genitive	eines	des	Contras	der	Contras
dative	einem	dem	Contra	den	Contras
accusative	einen	den	Contra	die	Contras

Further reading

• “Contra”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Contra” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon