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English
Etymology
Latin tactus
Noun
tactus (uncountable)
- The sense of touch.
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of tangō (“touch”).
Participle
tāctus (feminine tācta, neuter tāctum); first/second-declension participle
- touched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
- reached, having been reached, arrived at, having been arrived at
- attained to, having been attained to
- moved, having been moved, affected, having been affected
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Etymology 2
Noun
tāctus m (genitive tāctūs); fourth declension
- contact, the act of touching
- Synonyms: contāgiō, contāctus
- influence, effect
- Synonyms: effectus, contāgiō
- sense of touch
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “tactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tactus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- tactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- inspired: divino quodam spiritu inflatus or tactus