contradictor

Borrowed from Latin contrādictor.

contradictor (plural contradictors)

1. Alternative form of contradicter.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     “That was in Casco,” his wife contradicted immediately. She spoke in the unmistakable tones of a veteran contradictor.

From contrādīcō (“I speak against; contradict”), from contrā (“against”) + dīcō (“I say, speak”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.traːˈdɪk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪.t̪raˈd̪ik.t̪or]

contrādictor m (genitive contrādictōris); third declension

1. Someone who replies or objects; opponent.

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: contradictor
• French: contradicteur
• Italian: contradditore
• Portuguese: contraditor
• Romanian: contrazicător
• Spanish: contradictor

• “contradictor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "contradictor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contradictor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin contrādictor.

• IPA^(key): /kontɾadiɡˈtoɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪ɾa.ð̞iɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: con‧tra‧dic‧tor

contradictor (feminine contradictora, masculine plural contradictores, feminine plural contradictoras)

1. contradictory
   • 2015 July 31, “La ‘Colección Mexicana’ en Chile: una historia de solidaridad”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El espíritu contradictor, el uso de nuevos y variados ingredientes, texturas y colores para crear formas desafiantes, figuras inéditas o ambientes cotidianos pero redescubiertos, o el expresionismo abstracto como significado, fueron algunas de las aportaciones fundamentales de esta riada de pintores, por nacimiento o por elección, mexicanos.

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contradictor m (plural contradictores, feminine contradictora, feminine plural contradictoras)

1. contradicter

• “contradictor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024