verbthird conjugation
attingō
attingō (present infinitive attingere, perfect active attigī, supine attāctum)
Classical[atˈtɪŋ.ɡoː]Ecclesiastical[atˈtiŋ.ɡo]
Meaning
- transitiveto come in contact with, touch
- transitiveto assault; strike, attack
- transitiveto touch, taste
- transitiveto approach, reach, arrive at
- transitiveto be contiguous to, lie near, border upon
[…]; attingit etiam ab Sēquanīs et Helvētiīs flūmen Rhēnum, vergit ad septentriōnēs.
[…] ; it borders also the Rhine River on the side of the Sequani and the Helvetii, [and] stretches toward the north.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.1 - transitiveto touch, affect, interest, reach
- transitiveto mention slightly, touch upon
- transitiveto undertake, enter upon, engage in
- transitiveto be similar; to belong, relate or appertain to, concern
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Conjugation conjugation 3
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attingō | attingēbam | attingam | attigī | attigeram | attigerō |
| 2nd sg. | attingis | attingēbās | attingēs | attigistī | attigerās | attigeris |
| 3rd sg. | attingit | attingēbat | attinget | attigit | attigerat | attigerit |
| 1st pl. | attingimus | attingēbāmus | attingēmus | attigimus | attigerāmus | attigerimus |
| 2nd pl. | attingitis | attingēbātis | attingētis | attigistis | attigerātis | attigeritis |
| 3rd pl. | attingunt | attingēbant | attingent | attigērunt attigēre | attigerant | attigerint attingerint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attingam | attingerem | attigerim | attigissem |
| 2nd sg. | attingās | attingerēs | attigerīs | attigissēs |
| 3rd sg. | attingat | attingeret | attigerit | attigisset |
| 1st pl. | attingāmus | attingerēmus | attigerīmus | attigissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | attingātis | attingerētis | attigerītis | attigissētis |
| 3rd pl. | attingant | attingerent | attigerint attingerint | attigissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attingor | attingēbar | attingar |
| 2nd sg. | attingeris attingere | attingēbāris attingēbāre | attingēris attingēre |
| 3rd sg. | attingitur | attingēbātur | attingētur |
| 1st pl. | attingimur | attingēbāmur | attingēmur |
| 2nd pl. | attingiminī | attingēbāminī | attingēminī |
| 3rd pl. | attinguntur | attingēbantur | attingentur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attingar | attingerer |
| 2nd sg. | attingāris attingāre | attingerēris attingerēre |
| 3rd sg. | attingātur | attingerētur |
| 1st pl. | attingāmur | attingerēmur |
| 2nd pl. | attingāminī | attingerēminī |
| 3rd pl. | attingantur | attingerentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | attinge | attingere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | attingite | attingiminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | attingitō | attingitor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | attingitō | attingitor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | attingitōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | attinguntō | attinguntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | attingere | attingī |
| perfect infinitive | attigisse | attāctum esse |
| future infinitive | attāctūrum esse | attāctum īrī |
| present participle | attingēns | — |
| perfect participle | — | attāctus attācta, attāctā, attāctae, attāctam, attāctārum, attāctās, attācte, attāctī, attāctīs, attāctō, attāctōrum, attāctōs |
| future participle | attāctūrus attāctūra, attāctūrā, attāctūrae, attāctūram, attāctūrārum, attāctūrās, attāctūre, attāctūrī, attāctūrīs, attāctūrō, attāctūrōrum, attāctūrōs, attāctūrum | attingendus attingundus, attingenda, attingendā, attingendae, attingendam, attingendārum, attingendās, attingende, attingendīs, attingendōrum, attingendōs |
gerundattingendī, attingendō, attingendumsupineattāctum, attāctū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- res summas attingere
- to dwell only on the main points.
- tangere, attingere terram
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country.
- aries murum attingit, percutit
- the battering-ram strikes the wall.
- extremis digitis aliquid attingere
- to touch with the fingertips.
- breviter tangere, attingere aliquid
- to touch briefly on a thing.
- quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu).
- strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu).
- primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
- to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences.
at-tingo (not adt-), tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. tango (ante-class. form attĭgo, ĕre,
I. v. infra; attinge = attingam, acc. to Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Müll.; v. Müll. ad h. l.; concerning attigo, āre, v. fin.), to touch, come in contact with; constr. with the acc.; poet. with ad.
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: mento summam aquam, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: vestem, Att. ap. Non. p. 75, 32:
Egone Argivum imperium attingam, id. Trag. Rel. p. 166 Rib.: suaviter (omnia) attingunt, Lucr. 4, 623: nec enim ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi, Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6: prius quam aries murum attigisset, Caes. B. G. 2, 32: pedibus terram, Nep. Eum. 5, 5: quisquis (vas) attigerit, Vulg. Lev. 15, 23: nos nihil tuorum attigimus, id. Gen. 26, 29: (medicus) pulsum venarum attigit, Tac. A. 6, 50: se esse possessorem soli, quod primum Divus Augustus nascens attigisset, Suet. Aug. 5 (cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 46: Tactaque nascenti corpus haberet humus, acc. to the practice of laying new-born children upon the ground; v. tollo).—Poet.: (Callisto) miles erat Phoebes, nec Maenalon attigit (nor did there touch, set foot on) ulla Gratior hac Triviae, Ov. M. 2, 415: usque ad caelum attingebat stans in terrā, Vulg. Sap. 18, 16.—B. With partic. access. ideas.
1. To touch by striking, to strike; rarely in a hostile manner, to attack, assault:
ne me attingas, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 106; ne attigas me, id. Truc. 2, 2, 21: ne attigas puerum istac caussā, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 41 (quoted by Non. p. 75, 33): Si tu illam attigeris secus quam dignumst liberam, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 91.—Of lightning: ICTV. FVLMINIS. ARBORES. ATTACTAE. ARDVERINT., Fragm. Fratr. Arval. Inscr. Orell. 961; cf. Fest. s. v. scribonianum, p. 333 Müll., and s. v. obstitum, p. 193: si Vestinus attingeretur, i. e. ei bellum indiceretur, Liv. 8, 29; so Suet. Ner. 38.—3. To touch in eating, to taste, crop:
nulla neque amnem Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam, Verg. E. 5, 26.—4. Of local relations, to come to a place, to approach, reach, arrive at (class.;
esp. freq. in the histt.): aedīs ne attigatis, Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 37: ut primum Asiam attigisti, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8: cum primis navibus Britanniam attigit, Caes. B. G. 4, 23: Siciliam, Nep. Dion, 5, 3: Syriam ac legiones, Tac. A. 2, 55: saltuosos locos, id. ib. 4, 45: Urbem, id. Or. 7 fin.: In paucis diebus quam Capreus attigit etc., Suet. Tib. 60; id. Calig. 44; id. Vesp. 4 al.—5. Transf., to touch, lie near, border upon, be contiguous to:
Theseus ... Attigit injusti regis Gortynia tecta, Cat. 64, 75: Cappadociae regio, quae Ciliciam attingeret, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 4; id. Pis. 16 fin.: (stomachus) utrāque ex parte tonsillas attingens, etc., id. N. D. 2, 54, 135: eorum fines Nervii attingebant, Caes. B. G. 2, 15: ITEM. COLLEGIA. QVAE. ATTINGVNT. EIDEM. FORO, Inscr. Orell. 3314: attingere parietem, Vulg. Ezech. 41, 6.—II. Trop.
A. In gen., to touch, affect, reach:
nec desiderium nos attigit, Lucr. 3, 922 (adficit, Lachm.): ante quam voluptas aut dolor attigerit, Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 16: nimirum me alia quoque causa delectat, quae te non attingit, id. Leg. 2, 1, 3: quo studio providit, ne qua me illius temporis invidia attingeret, id. Fam. 3, 10, 10: si qua de Pompeio nostro tuendo ... cura te attingit, id. Att. 9, 11, A: erant perpauci, quos ea infamia attingeret, Liv 27, 11, 6: cupidus attingere gaudia, to feel, Prop. 1, 19, 9: vox, sonus, attigit aures, Val. Fl. 2, 452; Claud. B. Get: 412; Manil. 1, 326.—B. Esp.
1. To touch upon in speaking, etc., to mention slightly:
paucis rem, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 11: summatim attingere, Lucr. 3, 261: ut meos quoque attingam, Cat. 39, 13: quod perquam breviter perstrinxi atque attigi, Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 201; id. Fam. 2, 4 fin.: si tantummodo summas attigero, Nep. Pelop. 1, 1: invitus ea, tamquam vulnera, attingo, sed nisi tacta tractataque sanari non possunt, Liv. 28, 27: ut seditionem attigit, Tac. A. 1, 35: familiae (Galbae) breviter attingam, Suet. Galb. 3 al. —2. To touch, i. e. to undertake, enter upon some course of action (esp. mental), to apply one's self to, be occupied with, engage in, to take in hand, manage:
quae isti rhetores ne primoribus quidem labris attigissent, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12; id. Arch. 8: egomet, qui sero ac leviter Graecas litteras attigissem, id. de Or. 1, 18, 82: orationes, id. Or. 13, 41: poëticen, Nep. Att. 18, 5; so Suet. Aug. 85: liberales disciplinas omnes, id. Ner. 52: studia, id. Gram. 9: ut primum forum attigi, i. e. accessi, adii, applied myself to public affairs, Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 3: arma, Liv. 3, 19: militiam resque bellicas, Suet. Calig. 43: curam rei publicae, id. Tib. 13: ad Venerem seram, Ov. A. A. 2, 701.—3. (Acc. to I. B. 4.) To arrive somewhere:
quod ab illo attigisset nuntius, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 19 (cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 3: si a me tetigit nuntius).—4. (Acc. to I. B. 5.) To come near to in quality, to be similar; or to belong to, appertain to, to concern, relate to:
quae nihil attingunt ad rem nec sunt usui, Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 32: haec quemque attigit, id. ib. 1, 1, 20: attingit animi naturam corporis similitudo, Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 30; id. Fam. 13, 7, 4; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1: quae non magis legis nomen attingunt, quam si latrones aliqua sanxerint, id. Leg. 2, 5: Segestana, Centuripina civitas, quae cum officiis, fide, vetustate, tum etiam cognatione populi Romani nomen attingunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 32: (labor) non attingit deum, id. N. D. 1, 9, 22: primus ille (locus), qui in veri cognitione consistit, maxime naturam attingit humanam, id. Off. 1, 6, 18; id. Tusc. 5, 33, 93; id. Fin. 5, 9.—* 5. Si quid eam humanitus attigisset (for the usu. euphemism, accidisset), if any misfortune had happened to her, App. Mag. p. 337.!*? Ne me attiga atque aufer manum, Turp. ap. Non. p. 75, 30 dub. (Rib. here reads attigas, Com. Rel. p. 98): custodite istunc, ne attigat, Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 105 Rib.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
attingō (adt-) tigī, tāctus, ere
ad + tango, to touch, come in contact with: prius quam aries murum attigisset, Cs.: telas putris, to handle, V.: Maenalon, set foot on, O.: mento aquam: pedibus terram, N.—To touch, strike, lay hands on, seize: illam, T.: (fanum), to violate: si Vestinus attingeretur, were attacked, L.: herbam, crop, V.—To approach, reach, arrive at, attain to: Italiam: lumina, i. e. life, V.: arces igneas, i. e. divine honors, H.—Of places, to be near, border on, adjoin, touch: (regio) Ciliciam: eorum fines Nervii attingebant, Cs.—Fig., to touch, affect, reach: dignitatem tuam contumeliā: quos ea infamia attingeret, L.—Of speech, to touch upon, mention, refer to: quem simul atque attigi: genera breviter: tantum modo summas, N.: ea, tamquam volnera, L.—To undertake, enter upon, engage in, take in hand, manage: causam Murenae: forum, i. e. public affairs: Graecas litteras: poeticam, N.: arma, to arm themselves, L.: alqd extremis digitis, i. e. have little experience in. — To reach, attain: auctoritatem loci: haec.—To come in contact with, be related to, belong to, resemble: officiis populum: Res gerere ... Attingit solium Iovis, the administration of the state borders on, etc., H.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinattingō
Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- Proto-Italic *tangō Latin tangō Latin attingō From ad- + tangō (“touch”).
Elsewhere
- Italianattingere
- Englishattainfrom Old French ataindre
- Frenchatteindrefrom Old French ataindre
- Portugueseatingir
- Romanianatinge
- Romanianatingere
- Spanishatañer
- Spanishatingir
- Esperantoatingi
- Galicianatanguer
Old Occitan
- Occitanaténher
- Catalanatènyer
In English words that came into English from attingō
- attain*attangere
- attingentattingēns
- attingenceattingēns
- attingeattingō
- attaintureattinctūra