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