attiguus

== Latin == === Etymology === From attingō (“touch, border, be contiguous to”) +‎ -uus. The -tig- comes from vowel reduction of tag-, the root of the base verb tangō (without the nasal infix seen in the present stems tang- and atting-). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [atˈtɪ.ɡu.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [atˈtiː.ɡu.us] === Adjective === attiguus (feminine attigua, neuter attiguum); first/second-declension adjective adjacent ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: attiguo === References === “attiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “attiguus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.