contactus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of contingō (“touch on all sides”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈtaːk.tus/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪äːkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈtak.tus/, [kon̪ˈt̪äkt̪us]
Participle
contāctus (feminine contācta, neuter contāctum); first/second-declension participle
- touched on all sides, having been touched on all sides
- reached, arrived at, having been reached
- touched, affected, moved, having been moved
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | contāctus | contācta | contāctum | contāctī | contāctae | contācta | |
| Genitive | contāctī | contāctae | contāctī | contāctōrum | contāctārum | contāctōrum | |
| Dative | contāctō | 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
- The act of touching; contact, touch.
- Synonyms: contāgiō, tāctus
- A contagion, infection.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | contāctus | contāctūs |
| Genitive | contāctūs | contāctuum |
| Dative | contāctuī | contāctibus |
| Accusative | contāctum | contāctūs |
| Ablative | contāctū | contāctibus |
| Vocative | contāctus | contāctūs |
Related terms
- contāgēs
- contāgiō / contāgium / contāmen
- contāgiōsus
Descendants
- → Catalan: contacte
- → English: contact
- → Portuguese: contato, contacto
- → Russian: конта́кт (kontákt)
- → Spanish: contacto
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