contingo

• IPA^(key): /konˈtin.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: con‧tìn‧go

contingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of contingere

From con- (“together”) +‎ tangō (“touch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈtin.ɡoː/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪ɪŋɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈtin.ɡo/, [kon̪ˈt̪iŋɡo]

contingō (present infinitive contingere, perfect active contigī, supine contāctum); third conjugation

1. to touch on all sides, take hold of, come into contact with

   Synonyms: tempto, tango

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.238–239:

     “[...] Puerī circum innūptaeque puellae
     sacra canunt, fūnemque manū contingere gaudent.”

     “Around [the wooden horse], boys and unwedded girls chant hymns, and delight to touch a rope by hand.”
     (The Trojans pull the wooden horse using heavy ropes while their children celebrate it as a sacred effigy.)

2. to reach (by moving), attain to, come to, arrive at, meet with
3. to touch, extend to, border upon, reach; to be near, neighbouring or contiguous to

   Synonyms: subsum, immineo, astō, insto

   Antonyms: dissideō, distō

4. to strike

   Synonyms: percutio, accido, verbero, cello, discutio, ico, percello, affligo

5. to touch, affect, seize upon, move
6. (usually in passive) to touch with pollution, pollute, stain, defile, contaminate

   Synonyms: polluō, inquinō, maculō, scelerō

   Antonyms: tergeō, abstergeō, pūrgō, luō, putō, effingō

7. (with dative) to fall to one's lot, obtain
8. to happen, turn out, come to pass

   Synonyms: interveniō, ēveniō, obveniō, expetō, obtingō, incurrō, accēdō, intercidō, incidō, accidō, fīō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.94–96:

     [...] “Ō terque quaterque beātī,
     quīs ante ōra patrum Troiae sub moenibus altīs
     contigit oppetere! [...].”

     “Oh [those] three and four times blessed, to whom – before [your] fathers’ faces, beneath the high walls of Troy – it happened [for you] to meet [death]!”
     (Aeneas speaks in apostrophe to absent warriors; in other words, those heroes who died on the battlefield of Troy, as witnessed by their fathers from atop the city walls. Note: Here “quis” is “quibus,” a plural dative of interest.)

• Inherited:
  • Old Catalan: contènyer
    • ⇒ Catalan: acontènyer
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *contigīre (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: contingir
  • → English: contact
  • → Italian: contingere

• “contingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • my wishes are being fulfilled: optata mihi contingunt
    
  • to stand in very intimate relations to some one: summa necessitudine aliquem contingere
    
• contingo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “contingent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.