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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
