tactile
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French tactile, from Latin tactilis (“that may be touched, tangible”), from tangere (“to touch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tactile (comparative more tactile, superlative most tactile)
- Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch.
- Used for feeling.
- Of or relating to the sense of touch.
- 1892, William James, Psychology (Briefer Course)
- The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is greatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm.
- 1892, William James, Psychology (Briefer Course)
Derived terms
[edit]- audiotactile
- chemotactile
- electrotactile
- entactogen
- mechanotactile
- nontactile
- orotactile
- pedotactile
- pneumotactile
- Protactile
- tactile ground surface indicator
- tactilely
- tactile paving
- tactile paving slab
- tactile walking surface indicator
- tactility
- tactilize
- tactilometric
- tactilometry
- teletactile
- thermotactile
- untactile
- vibrotactile
- visuotactile
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]tangible
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used for feeling
of, or relating to the sense of touch
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tactile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tactile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “tactile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tactile (plural tactiles)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tactile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tāctile
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *teh₂g- (touch)
- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æktəl
- Rhymes:English/æktəl/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
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- French terms borrowed from Latin
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- French 2-syllable words
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- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin adjective forms