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Latin
Etymology
From tāct- (perfect passive participial stem of tangō (“to touch”)) + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
Adjective
tāctilis (neuter tāctile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- tangible
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “tactilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tactilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.