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contactus
contactus
Latin
Participle
contāctus m (feminine contācta, neuter contāctum); first/second declension
- touched on all sides, having been touched on all sides
- reached, arrived at, having been reached
- touched, affected, moved, having been moved
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | contāctus | contācta | contāctum | contāctī | contāctae | contācta | |
| genitive | contāctī | contāctae | contāctī | contāctōrum | contāctārum | contāctōrum | |
| dative | contāctō | contāctō | contāctīs | ||||
| accusative | contāctum | contāctam | contāctum | contāctōs | contāctās | contācta | |
| ablative | contāctō | contāctā | contāctō | contāctīs | |||
| vocative | contācte | contācta | contāctum | contāctī | contāctae | contācta | |
Noun
contāctus m (genitive contāctūs); fourth declension
Inflection
Fourth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | contāctus | contāctūs |
| genitive | contāctūs | contāctuum |
| dative | contāctuī | contāctibus |
| accusative | contāctum | contāctūs |
| ablative | contāctū | contāctibus |
| vocative | contāctus | contāctūs |
Related terms
- contāgēs
- contāgiō / contāgium / contāmen
- contāgiōsus
Descendants
- Russian: конта́кт (kontákt)
References
- contactus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- contactus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CONTACTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “contactus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.