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tactus

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English

Etymology

From Latin tactus.

Noun

tactus (uncountable)

  1. The sense of touch.

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of tangō (touch).

Participle

tāctus (feminine tācta, neuter tāctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. touched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
  2. reached, having been reached, arrived at, having been arrived at
  3. attained to, having been attained to
  4. moved, having been moved, affected, having been affected
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

Noun

tāctus m (genitive tāctūs); fourth declension

  1. contact, the act of touching
    Synonyms: contāgiō, contāctus
  2. influence, effect
    Synonyms: effectus, contāgiō
  3. sense of touch
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants
  • Catalan: tacte
  • English: tact
  • French: tact
  • Galician: tacto
  • Italian: tatto
  • Occitan: tacte
  • Portuguese: tato
  • Spanish: tacto

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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • tactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • inspired: divino quodam spiritu inflatus or tactus

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