contingo

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

contingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of contingere

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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.)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of contingō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	contingō	contingis	contingit	contingimus	contingitis	contingunt
	imperfect	contingēbam	contingēbās	contingēbat	contingēbāmus	contingēbātis	contingēbant
	future	contingam	contingēs	continget	contingēmus	contingētis	contingent
	perfect	contigī	contigistī	contigit	contigimus	contigistis	contigērunt, contigēre
	pluperfect	contigeram	contigerās	contigerat	contigerāmus	contigerātis	contigerant
	future perfect	contigerō	contigeris	contigerit	contigerimus	contigeritis	contigerint
passive	present	contingor	contingeris, contingere	contingitur	contingimur	contingiminī	continguntur
	imperfect	contingēbar	contingēbāris, contingēbāre	contingēbātur	contingēbāmur	contingēbāminī	contingēbantur
	future	contingar	contingēris, contingēre	contingētur	contingēmur	contingēminī	contingentur
	perfect	contāctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	contāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	contāctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	contingam	contingās	contingat	contingāmus	contingātis	contingant
imperfect	contingerem	contingerēs	contingeret	contingerēmus	contingerētis	contingerent
perfect	contigerim	contigerīs	contigerit	contigerīmus	contigerītis	contigerint
pluperfect	contigissem	contigissēs	contigisset	contigissēmus	contigissētis	contigissent
passive	present	contingar	contingāris, contingāre	contingātur	contingāmur	contingāminī	contingantur
imperfect	contingerer	contingerēris, contingerēre	contingerētur	contingerēmur	contingerēminī	contingerentur
perfect	contāctus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	contāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	continge	—	—	contingite	—
	future	—	contingitō	contingitō	—	contingitōte	continguntō
passive	present	—	contingere	—	—	contingiminī	—
	future	—	contingitor	contingitor	—	—	continguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		contingere	contigisse	contāctūrum esse	contingī	contāctum esse	contāctum īrī
participles		contingēns	—	contāctūrus	—	contāctus	contingendus, contingundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		contingendī	contingendō	contingendum	contingendō	contāctum	contāctū

Derived terms

• contāctus
• contiguus

 

Related terms

• attingō
• contāgiō
• contāgium
• contāminō
• obtingō
• pertingō

 

Descendants

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

References

• “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^[1], 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^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “contingent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.