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Catalan
Verb
contamino
- first-person singular present indicative of contaminar
Galician
Verb
contamino
- first-person singular present indicative of contaminar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈta.mi.no/
- Rhymes: -amino
- Hyphenation: con‧tà‧mi‧no
Verb
contamino
- first-person singular present indicative of contaminare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
con- + *tāmen + -ō; probably for *tagmen, derived from the root of tangō (Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-).
Pronunciation
Verb
contāminō (present infinitive contāmināre, perfect active contāmināvī, supine contāminātum); first conjugation
- to touch, bring into contact
- to corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute
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Descendants
References
- “contamino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contamino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contamino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be tainted with vice: vitiis, sceleribus contaminari or se contaminare (Off. 3. 8. 37)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -inu, (Brazil) -ĩnu
- Hyphenation: con‧ta‧mi‧no
Verb
contamino
- first-person singular present indicative of contaminar
Spanish
Verb
contamino
- first-person singular present indicative of contaminar