contracyclical

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
3. Proto-Italic*kom
4. Proto-Italic*kom-
5. Proto-Italic*komteros
6. Proto-Italic*komterād
7. Latincontrā
8. Englishcontra-
9. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
10. Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
11. Proto-Hellenic*kʷókʷlos
12. Proto-Hellenic*kúklos
13. Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
14. Ancient Greekκυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)
15. Classical Latincyclicu
16. Middle Frenchcyclique
17. Frenchcyclique
18. Classical Latincyclicus
19. Englishcyclic
20. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
21. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
22. Englishcyclical
23. English todaycontracyclical

From contra- + cyclical.