tactio

== Latin == === Etymology === From tangō + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtaːk.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtak.t͡si.o] === Noun === tāctiō f (genitive tāctiōnis); third declension (Plautine) a touching (not found outside the set phrase tāctiō esse, see usage notes) (very rare) the sense of touch; (countable) a sensing by touch ==== Usage notes ==== Used by Plautus quasi-verbally in the expression tāctiō alicui esse, "for someone to touch", with a direct object in the accusative: quid tibī hanc digitō tāctiō est?, "what business is it of yours touching her with your finger?" (Poenulus, 5.5.29). ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Further reading === “tactĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tactĭo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. tāctio in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tactio”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC