contrafort
Catalan
Etymology
From contra + fort. Calque of French contrefort.
Pronunciation
Noun
contrafort m (plural contraforts)
- buttress, counterfort
- (geomorphology) spur
- counter, heelcap (of footwear)
Further reading
- “contrafort”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French contrefort.
Noun
contrafort n (plural contraforturi)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | contrafort | contrafortul | contraforturi | contraforturile | |
| genitive-dative | contrafort | contrafortului | contraforturi | contraforturilor | |
| vocative | contrafortule | contraforturilor | |||