contagium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin contagium (“contagion”). === Noun === contagium (plural contagia) (archaic) contagion; contagious matter [ca. 1870—1910] == Latin == === Etymology === From contingo (“to contact; contaminate”) +‎ -ium, from con- (“with”) +‎ tango (“to touch”). More precisely, built on the root of the verb (see Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-) and so lacks the nasal infix found in the verb's present stem; compare contāgiō and contāminō. === Noun === contāgium n (genitive contāgiī or contāgī); second declension contact, touching Synonyms: contāctus, contāgiō contagion Synonyms: contāctus, contāminātiō ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== contāgiō contingō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “contagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “contagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "contagium", 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) “contagium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.