contrapor

• contrapoñer

From Latin contrāpōnere (“place in opposition”).

contrapor (first-person singular present contrapoño, first-person singular preterite contrapuxen, past participle contraposto)
contrapor (first-person singular present contraponho, first-person singular preterite contrapugem or contrapus, past participle contraposto, reintegrationist norm)

1. to compare
2. to set up against, place in opposition

While contrapoñer is the more widespread form of this verb, some Galician-speaking regions favor the form contrapor and the correspondingly different conjugation.

From Latin contraponere. By surface analysis, contra +‎ pôr.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -oʁ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ
• Hyphenation: con‧tra‧por

contrapor (first-person singular present contraponho, first-person singular preterite contrapus, past participle contraposto)

1. to oppose to something
2. to compare one thing with another

• contraposição

• “contrapor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “contrapor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026