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Latin
Etymology
From in- + tāctus (past participle of tangō (“I touch”)), literally “untouched”.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intāctus (feminine intācta, neuter intāctum); first/second-declension adjective
- untouched, intact, unharmed
- Synonyms: incolumis, sānus, salvus, validus, integer, sospes, salūber, sollus, innoxius
- Antonyms: aeger, miser, īnfirmus, languidus
- (figuratively) untried
- virgin, undefiled, chaste
- Synonym: virgō
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “intactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.