# contagio
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kun.təˈʒi.u]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kon.təˈʒi.o]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kon.taˈd͡ʒi.o]

### Verb

contagio
* first-person singular present indicative of contagiar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈta.d͡ʒo/
* Rhymes: -adʒo
* Hyphenation: con‧tà‧gio

### Etymology 1

From Latin contāgium.

#### Noun

contagio m (plural contagi)
* contagion
* disease, epidemic

##### Derived terms

* contagiare

##### Related terms

* contagione
* contagioso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

contagio
* first-person singular present indicative of contagiare

### Further reading

* contagio in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* contagio in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* contagio in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* contagio in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* contagio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* cogitano

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈtaː.ɡi.oː/, [kɔn̪ˈt̪äːɡioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /konˈta.d͡ʒi.o/, [kon̪ˈt̪äːd͡ʒio]

### Etymology 1

The origin of the long -ā- is unknown. In any case, related to tangō (and the prefixed contingō), with the suffix -iō.

#### Noun

contāgiō f (genitive contāgiōnis); third declension
* contact, touch
    Synonyms: tāctus, contāctus
* intercourse (social)
* influence
    Synonym: tāctus

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Catalan: contagió
* French: contagion
* Ido: kontagio
* Italian: contagione
* Occitan: contagion
* Portuguese: contagião
* Romanian: contagiune
* Spanish: contagión

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

contāgiō
* dative/ablative singular of contāgium

### References

* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tango”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 606-607
* “contagio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “contagio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* contagio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* contagio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Portuguese
### Verb

contagio
* first-person singular present indicative of contagiar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈtaxjo/ [kõn̪ˈt̪a.xjo]
* Rhymes: -axjo
* Syllabification: con‧ta‧gio

### Etymology 1

From Latin contāgium.

#### Noun

contagio m (plural contagios)
* infection, contagion
    Synonym: (rare) contagión

##### Derived terms

* contagiar

##### Related terms

* contagión
* contagioso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

contagio
* first-person singular present indicative of contagiar

### Further reading

* “contagio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10