contactus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔnˈtaːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [konˈtak.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of contingō (“to touch on all sides”). ==== Participle ==== contāctus (feminine contācta, neuter contāctum); first/second-declension participle touched on all sides, having been touched on all sides reached, arrived at, having been reached touched, affected, moved, having been moved ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From contingō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== contāctus m (genitive contāctūs); fourth declension a touching; contact, touch Synonyms: contāgiō, tāctus a contagion, infection ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === Related terms === === References === “contactus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “contactus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “contāctus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “contāctus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “contactus / contactŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "contactus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)