What is the translation of " CONTRARY " in Latin?

• contra
• contraria
• contrarium
• ex adverso

Examples of using Contrary in English and their translations into Latin

Contrary to what it says.
Contra quod dicitur Is.

But is all anger contrary to virtue?
Sed numquid omnis ira contrariatur virtuti?

Contrary to Christ, Mat.
Primum est Christus, Matth.

But as regards knowledge, man has contrary inclinations.
Sed quantum ad cognitionem, est in homine contraria inclinatio.

Contrary to what doubters proclaim.
Sed contra est quod dicitur Deuteron.

It would seem that superstition is not a vice contrary to religion.
Videtur quod superstitio non sit vitium religioni contrarium.

But a contrary resists more than nothing.
Sed plus resistit contrarium quam nihil.

Now those who are born out of wedlock are born contrary to the law.
Sed illi qui nascuntur extra matrimonium, nascuntur contra legem.

A bishop who, contrary to the prescript of can.
Episcopus qui, contra praescriptum can.

I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me.
Ego veni ut adversarer tibi, quia perversa est via tua, mihique contraria;

Obrogation- the enacting of a contrary law that is a revocation of a previous law.
Egica conatus est leges antecessorium mutare, regnum legitimandi causa.

Now no precept is to be found forbidding despair which is contrary to hope.
Sed non invenitur aliquod praeceptum datum per quod prohibeatur desperatio, quae est opposita spei.

But the evil of man is to be contrary to reason, as Dionysius says in On the Divine Names IV.
Sed malum hominis est contra rationem esse, ut Dionysius dicit, iv Cap.

Wherefore safety is opposed to fear, as a privation: while daring is opposed thereto as a contrary.
Unde securitas opponitur timori sicut privatio, audacia autem sicut contrarium.

Whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!
Quos suscepit Iason et hii omnes contra decreta Caesaris faciunt regem alium dicentes esse Iesum!

Now surely Varro, so great an author, would not call this a portent, unless it seemed contrary to nature.
Hoc certe Varro tantus auctor portentum non appellaret, nisi esse contra naturam videretur.

Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
Quos suscepit Iason et hii omnes contra decreta Caesaris faciunt regem alium dicentes esse Iesum.

Such ignorance, namely, which consists in wrongly using the principles of geometry is contrary to the truth of geometry.
Et ignorantia haec, scilicet quae est in prave utendo principiis geometriae, contraria est veritati geometriae.

Consequently, it is plain that if there are two contrary circular motions, there would have to be something in vain in nature.
Sic ergo patet quod, si sint duo motus circulares contrarii, necesse est aliquid esse frustra in natura.

In like manner there are three groups in the irascible faculty; viz. hope and despair, fear and daring, and anger which has no contrary passion.
Similiter in irascibili sunt tres, scilicet spes et desperatio, timor et audacia, et ira, cui nulla passio opponitur.

So that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
Ita ut e contra magis donetis et consolemini ne forte abundantiori tristitia absorbeatur qui eiusmodi est.

I ask of you, therefore, according to that passage which has been read, how can we have sins if contrary nature compels us to do what we do?
Ergo nunc quaero abs te, secundum eam lectionem quae lecta est, quomodo habeamus peccata, si natura contraria nos cogit facere quod facimus?

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity.
Ambulabo igitur et ego contra eos et inducam illos in terram hostilem donec erubescat incircumcisa mens eorum tunc orabunt pro impietatibus suis.

If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me.
Donec confiteantur iniquitates suas et maiorum suorum quibus praevaricati sunt in me et ambulaverunt ex adverso mihi.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Caro enim concupiscit adversus spiritum spiritus autem adversus carnem haec enim invicem adversantur ut non quaecumque vultis illa faciatis.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Donec confiteantur iniquitates suas et maiorum suorum quibus praevaricati sunt in me et ambulaverunt ex adverso mihi.

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Nam si tu ex naturali excisus es oleastro et contra naturam insertus es in bonam olivam quanto magis hii secundum naturam inserentur suae olivae?

Nevertheless such a demonstration does not always employ this principle, for sometimes that opposite which is shown to be false is not a negation but an immediate contrary.
Non tamen semper utitur praedicta demonstratio hoc principio, quia quandoque illud oppositum quod ostenditur esse falsum, non est negatio, sed contrarium immediatum.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Nam si tu ex naturali excisus es oleastro et contra naturam insertus es in bonam olivam quanto magis hii secundum naturam inserentur suae olivae?

Contrary to much of traditional linguistics, discourse analysts not only study language use'beyond the sentence boundary' but also prefer to analyze'naturally occurring' language use, not invented examples.
Contra multum linguisticae traditionalis, explicatores sermonis usum linguae non solum explicant"praeter limitem sententiae," sed etiam usum linguae"naturaliter accidentem," et non exempla solum excogitata.