SC - contrefait - contrefact
Charles McCN
charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au
Sun Nov 23 21:46:56 PST 1997
> Agreed!!!
> Now what about the origin of "contre"?
> Lord Robert de QuelQuePart
> P. S.: I assure you that it means conter (oc or look alike).
Off the top of my head:
contre (fr) = contra (L) = counter (Eng) as in counter-measure,
contretemps. An exact meaning is a bit tricky to pin down, especially in
this context. It has a meaning of exchange, or against something. The
sense of the whole word is similar to substitute.
Charles = ragnar
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