Editing Contronym (section)

====Adjectives====
*The [[Latin]] ''[[wikt:sinister#Latin|sinister]]'' {{lit|left}} meant both "auspicious" and "inauspicious", within the respective Roman and Greek traditions of [[augury]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/augury.php|title=On Auguries|author=M. Horatius Piscinus}}</ref> The negative meaning was carried on into French and ultimately English.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/sinister#etymonline_v_23561|website=www.etymonline.com|title=sinister (adj.)}}</ref>
*Latin {{Wikt-lang|la|nimius}} means "excessive, too much". It maintained this meaning in Spanish {{wikt-lang|es|nimio}}, but it was also misinterpreted as "insignificant, without importance".<ref name="RAE nimio">{{cite book |title=Diccionario de la lengua española |date=2021 |publisher=RAE-ASALE |edition=23 |url=https://dle.rae.es/nimio |access-date=22 April 2022 |language=es |chapter=nimio, nimia}}</ref><ref name="Verne">{{cite web |last=Rubio Hancock|first=Jaime|title=19 autoantónimos: palabras que significan una cosa y la contraria |url=https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2016/08/23/articulo/1471965781_732292.html |website=Verne |publisher=Ediciones El País |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=es |date=28 August 2016}}</ref>
*In [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]], {{Wikt-lang|vi|minh}} means among other things "bright, clear" (from [[Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary|Sino-Vietnamese]]  {{lang|vi-Hant|明}}) and "dead, gloomy" (from {{lang|vi-Hant|冥}}). Because of this, the name of the dwarf planet [[Pluto]] is not adapted from {{Script|Hant|冥王星}} as in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.<ref name="RenshawIhara2000">{{cite web
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}}</ref><ref name="Bathrobe">{{cite web
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}}</ref>
*Spanish {{wikt-lang|es|dichoso}} meant originally "blissful, fortunate" as in {{lang|es|tierra dichosa}}, "fortunate land". However it developed an ironic and colloquial meaning "bothersome, unlucky", as in {{lang|es|¡Dichosas moscas!}}, "Damned flies!".<ref name="RAE dichoso">{{cite book |title=Diccionario de la lengua española |date=2021 |publisher=RAE-ASALE |edition=23 |url=https://dle.rae.es/dichoso |access-date=2023-05-07 |language=es |chapter=dichoso}}</ref>