attinge

attinge

English

Etymology

From Latin attingo (“I touch”).

Verb

attinge (third-person singular simple present attinges, present participle attinging, simple past and past participle attinged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To touch lightly.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for attinge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• tintage

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Interlingua

Verb

attinge

1. present of attinger
2. imperative of attinger

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Italian

Verb

attinge

1. third-person singular present indicative of attingere

Anagrams

• gattine
• gitante

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Latin

Verb

attinge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of attingō