contradico

1. first-person singular present indicative of contradire

• circondato, concordati, condrocita, ritoccando

• contrādeicō (Old Latin)

From contrā- (“against”) +‎ dīcō (“to say, speak”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.traːˈdiː.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.traˈdiː.ko]

contrādīcō (present infinitive contrādīcere, perfect active contrādīxī, supine contrādictum); third conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. (often with dative) to speak or allege against, oppose; contradict, gainsay

   Synonyms: negō, adversor, oppōnō, refrāgor, repugnō, resistō

   Antonyms: adiuvō, cōnfirmō

   • 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."

• Often written separately or inverted, especially during the pre-Augustan period of writing

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to contradict some one: dicere contra aliquem or aliquid (not contradicere alicui)