contreure

• contraure

Borrowed from Latin contrahere; adapted to inherited treure.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kunˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [konˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [konˈtɾew.ɾe]

contreure (first-person singular present contrec or contrac, first-person singular preterite contraguí, past participle contret); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. (transitive) to contract (to acquire)
2. (grammar, transitive) to contract (to shorten by omitting letters)
3. (transitive, reflexive) to contract (to draw together or nearer)

• contracció
• treure

• “contreure”, 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