# contingo
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konˈtin.ɡo/
* Rhymes: -inɡo
* Hyphenation: con‧tìn‧go

### Verb

contingo
* first-person singular present indicative of contingere

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

contingō (present infinitive contingere, perfect active contigī, supine contāctum); third conjugation
* to touch on all sides, take hold of, come into contact with
    Synonyms: temptō, tangō
** 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.)
* to reach (by moving), attain to, come to, arrive at, meet with
* to touch, extend to, border upon, reach; to be near, neighbouring or contiguous to
    Synonyms: subsum, immineō, astō, īnstō
    Antonyms: dissideō, distō
* to strike
    Synonyms: percutiō, accidō, verberō, cellō, discutiō, icō, percellō, afflīgō
* to touch, affect, seize upon, move
* (usually in passive) to touch with pollution, pollute, stain, defile, contaminate
    Synonyms: polluō, inquinō, maculō, scelerō
    Antonyms: tergeō, abstergeō, pūrgō, luō, putō, effingō
* (with dative) to fall to one's lot, obtain
* 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.)

#### 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, 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
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “contingent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.