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contrafacta

contrafacta is the plural of contrafactum.

Meaning of contrafactum

Noun

contrafactum (plural contrafacta)

  1. The substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music.
  2. The use of a secular melody with a religious text.

Questions about contrafacta

What is contrafacta the plural of?
Contrafacta is the plural of contrafactum.

Words near contrafacta in the dictionary

  1. contradistinguishing
  2. contradistinguisht
  3. contraexpectation
  4. contraexpectational
  5. contrafact
  6. contrafacta
  7. contrafactive
  8. contrafacts
  9. contrafactual
  10. contrafactum
  11. contrafagotti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contrafacta (page history and authors); contrafactum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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