contingis
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;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...terramet, desit si larga Ceres, tunc horrida cernifoedaque contingi maculato attingere morsu.nec pauet hic populus pro libertate subireobsessum..." - D
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...alto de sanguine rarus ciuis et egregius patriae contingis ouanti, exclamare libet populus quod clamat Osiri inuento. quis..." - D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...praestabat castas humilis fortuna Latinas quondam, nec uitiis contingi parua sinebant tecta labor somnique breues et uellere Tusco..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...incidisse aut demissis in profundum catenis Neptunum potuisse contingi? Vt caelestia humanas manus effugiunt..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...quare nec talis dignantur visere coetus, nec se contingi patiuntur lumine claro. + LXV. ad Ortalum Etsi me assiduo..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...bone—nam te scire, deos quoniam propius contingis oportet—, numquid de Dacis audisti?' 'nil equidem.' 'ut tu semper..."
