contingens
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. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...communiter istae effundant Zephyrum, Boreae latus illa sinistrum contingens dextrumque Noti discedit in ortus Eurum sola tenens. Libycae..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...obscura de re tam lucida pango carmina musaeo contingens cuncta lepore. id quoque enim non ab nulla ratione..." - T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...obscura de re tam lucida pango carmina musaeo contingens cuncta lepore. id quoque enim non ab nulla ratione..." - D
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Tirynthius aut minor illo hospes, et ipse tamen contingens sanguine caelum, alter aquis, alter flammis ad sidera missus..." - G
Galba
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...excussum est. II. Neroni Galba successit nullo gradu contingens Caesarum domum, sed haud dubie nobilissimus magnaque et vetere..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...antiquis diva novum posuit. Virginis et saevi contingens namque Leonis lumina, Callisto iuncta Lycaoniae, vertor in occasum, tardum..."
