contigerint
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;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 3rdpl. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...pallio atque hominem propero invenire, ut haec quae contigerint sciat. {An.} num tu intellegi' quid hic narret..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...coeunt sacro nupta deusque toro. Ergo ubi contigerint positi tibi munera Bacchi, Atque erit in socii femina parte..."
