kontar

See also: kontár

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English count, French compter, German Konto, Italian contare and Spanish contar, all ultimately from Latin computāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈtar/
• Hyphenation: kon‧tar

Verb

kontar (present tense kontas, past tense kontis, future tense kontos, imperative kontez, conditional kontus)

1. (transitive, mathematics) to count, reckon, add up, tally
2. (transitive) to take a census

Conjugation

    Conjugation of kontar

		present		past		future
infinitive		kontar		kontir		kontor
tense		kontas		kontis		kontos
conditional		kontus
imperative		kontez
adjective active participle		kontanta		kontinta		kontonta
adverbial active participle		kontante		kontinte		kontonte
nominal active participle	singular	kontanto		kontinto		kontonto
	plural	kontanti		kontinti		kontonti
adjective passive participle		kontata		kontita		kontota
adverbial passive participle		kontate		kontite		kontote
nominal passive participle	singular	kontato		kontito		kontoto
	plural	kontati		kontiti		kontoti

Synonyms

• kalkular (“to calculate”)
• enumerar (“to enumerate”)

Derived terms

• kontado
• kontanto (“counter”)
• kontero (“counter”)
• kontilo (“counter (machine); meter”)
• konto
• konturo (“the result of a count; the total amount”)

 

Ladino

Alternative forms

• contar

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish contar, conptar (“to count”).

Verb

kontar (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קונטאר)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to tell (inform)
   • 1992, Los Muestros‎^[1], number 7, R. Capuia, page 58:

     Lo ke konto aki es verdad.

     What I am telling here is the truth.

2. (transitive) to count (numerate)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, translated by Isaac Jerusalmi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[2], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 235:

     […] i kontavan la moneda ke re[ko]jia kada mes, i korava 20 por 100 por su lazerya.

     and they were counting the money that was accumulating monthly, and they collected 20 by 100 for their work.

3. (transitive) to consider (think of something as)

   Si tu enemigo es una ormiga, kontalo komo un gameyo. ― If your foe is an ant, consider him a camel.