contactus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of contingō (“touch on all sides”).

Pronunciation

Participle

contāctus (feminine contācta, neuter contāctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. touched on all sides, having been touched on all sides
  2. reached, arrived at, having been reached
  3. touched, affected, moved, having been moved

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative contāctus contācta contāctum contāctī contāctae contācta
genitive contāctī contāctae contāctī contāctōrum contāctārum contāctōrum
dative contāctō contāctae contāctō contāctīs
accusative contāctum contāctam contāctum contāctōs contāctās contācta
ablative contāctō contāctā contāctō contāctīs
vocative contācte contācta contāctum contāctī contāctae contācta

Noun

contāctus m (genitive contāctūs); fourth declension

  1. The act of touching; contact, touch.
    Synonyms: contāgiō, tāctus
  2. A contagion, infection.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative contāctus contāctūs
genitive contāctūs contāctuum
dative contāctuī contāctibus
accusative contāctum contāctūs
ablative contāctū contāctibus
vocative contāctus contāctūs

Descendants

References

  • “contactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “contactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • contactus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • contactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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