contractus

Perfect passive participle of contrahō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtrak.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̪ˈt̪rak.t̪us]

contractus (feminine contracta, neuter contractum); first/second-declension participle

1. collected, accomplished, contracted

First/second-declension adjective.

contractus (feminine contracta, neuter contractum, comparative contractior); first/second-declension adjective

1. narrow, restricted, pinched, cramped
2. abridged, terse
3. restrained

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: contratto

contractus m (genitive contractūs); fourth declension

1. collection
2. contraction
3. contract, agreement

Fourth-declension noun.

• “contractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contractus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "contractus", 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)
• contractus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “contractus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contractus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “contractus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin