contacto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contingo, contingere, contigi, contactus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
touch; reach (to); border on, be connected with; affect, hit; take hold, seize;; color/stain; lay hands on, appropriate; smite; affect emotionally, move/touch;; happen, befall, turn out, come to pass, be granted to one; be produced;; it happens, it turns out; (PERF) it came to pass;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...sumuntur a conuersantibus mores et ut quaedam in contactos corporis uitia transiliunt, ita animus mala sua proximis tradit..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...sudor membra sequebatur, nec longo deinde moranti tempore contactos artus sacer ignis edebat..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...altera me sceptro decoras altoque cothurno; iam nunc contacto magnus in ore sonus. altera das nostro victurum nomen..." - T
Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...accitus ab nobis Scipio interuenisset. at hercule milites contactos sacrilegio furor agitat, in ducibus ipsis puniendis nullum deae..."