contactus
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;
nom. sg. 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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
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Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Abscede, uiue, ne quid exores, et hic contactus ensis deserat castum latus. quis eluet me Tanais aut quae..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...laxato: "Quaeso, inquam, regina, noli suggillare miserias. Veneficio contactus sum". <. . .> CIRCE: "Dic, Chrysis, sed verum: numquid indecens..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...limenque foresque et tantum caelo tegitur refugitque viriles contactus, statuitque aras de caespite binas, dexteriore Hecates, ast laeva..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...aegri erant et moriebantur; postea curatio ipsa et contactus aegrorum uolgabat morbos, ut aut neglecti desertique qui incidissent..."
