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contagium.

contact, touching

9 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. contact, touching

    declension-2
  2. contagion

    declension-2
Where this word comes from

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.

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