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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /atˈtin.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -inɡo
- Hyphenation: at‧tìn‧go
Verb
attingo
- first-person singular present indicative of attingere
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Latin
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Etymology
From ad- + tangō (“touch”).
Pronunciation
Verb
attingō (present infinitive attingere, perfect active attigī, supine attāctum); third conjugation
- to come in contact with, touch
- to assault; strike, attack
- (in eating) to touch, taste
- to approach, reach, arrive at
- to be contiguous to, lie near, border upon
- to touch, affect, interest, reach
- to mention slightly, touch upon
- to undertake, enter upon, engage in,
- to be similar; to belong, relate or appertain to, concern
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References
- “attingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “attingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- attingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: tangere, attingere terram
- to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
- to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences: primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
- to touch briefly on a thing: breviter tangere, attingere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
- to dwell only on the main points: res summas attingere
- the battering-ram strikes the wall: aries murum attingit, percutit