contactu
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. - Entry →contactus, contactus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
touch, contact; contagion, infection, pollution; (personal/logical) association;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...enim uitia et in proximum quemque transiliunt et contactu nocent. Itaque, ut in pestilentia curandum est ne correptis..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...peruenturam ad eum; maiore enim interuallo a contactu inferiorum abductus est quam ut ulla uis noxia usque..." - L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...cruorem. Sentit introitus tuos domus et nefando tota contactu horruit. actum est abunde! gradere ad infernos specus amnemque..." - G
Virgil
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...mater somniavit enixam se laureum ramum, quem contactu terrae coaluisse et excrevisse ilico in speciem maturae arboris refertaeque..." - M
XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...omnibus, quibus insedere, odorem mellis inspirant et brevi contactu vim sui relinquunt. hoc tu damnum intellegis? hoc veneno..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ipsa maternorum viscerum sede comprimere aut, ut primum contactu suo caelum terrasque polluerit, festinata morte dimittere. sane tamen..." - M
II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...fugiat? properat miser, ut revertatur? en membra contactu stringuntur ignium, pater tamen toto cooperitur amplexu, et ardentibus tunc..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...desidiam uero otiumque non resoluemus et procul a contactu deliciarum retinebimus; nihil enim magis facit iracundos quam educatio..."
