contactos
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;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →contactus, contactus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
touch, contact; contagion, infection, pollution; (personal/logical) association;
gen. sg.
Examples
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..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...sudor membra sequebatur, nec longo deinde moranti tempore contactos artus sacer ignis edebat..."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..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...accitus ab nobis Scipio interuenisset. at hercule milites contactos sacrilegio furor agitat, in ducibus ipsis puniendis nullum deae..."
