Latin

Verb

contrahō ‎(present infinitive contrahere, perfect active contraxī, supine contractum); third conjugation

1. I draw, bring or drag several objects together; collect, assemble, gather, amass.
2. I bring about, accomplish, execute, get, cause, produce, make.
3. I make a contract, conclude, transact, do business, contract.
4. I draw close or together, draw in, contract, compress, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish.
5. (architecture) I make smaller or tapering, narrow.
6. I draw in, lessen, check, restrain.

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References

• contraho in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• contraho in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “contraho”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
    
  • to form a friendship with any one: amicitiam cum aliquo jungere, facere, inire, contrahere
    
  • to have business relations with some one: contrahere rem or negotium cum aliquo (Cluent. 14. 41)
    
  • to do no business with a man: nihil cum aliquo contrahere
    
  • to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
    
  • to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
    
  • to concentrate troops: conducere, contrahere copias
    
  • to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)