tactus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tactus. Doublet of tact. === Noun === tactus (uncountable) The sense of touch. (music) beat, pulse == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of tangō (“touch”). ==== Participle ==== tāctus (feminine tācta, neuter tāctum); first/second-declension participle touched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped reached, having been reached, arrived at, having been arrived at attained to, having been attained to moved, having been moved, affected, having been affected ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From tangō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== tāctus m (genitive tāctūs); fourth declension contact, the act of touching Synonyms: contāgiō, contāctus influence, effect Synonyms: effectus, contāgiō sense of touch ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === References === “tactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers tactus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication “tactus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.