verbthird conjugation
contingō
contingō (present infinitive contingere, perfect active contigī, supine contāctum)
Classical[kɔnˈtɪŋ.ɡoː]Ecclesiastical[konˈtiŋ.ɡo]
№ 494 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- to touch on all sides, take hold of, come into contact with
“[...] Puerī circum innūptaeque puellae
“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.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.238–239 - 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
- to strike
- to touch, affect, seize upon, move
- passiveregionalto touch with pollution, pollute, stain, defile, contaminate
- with dativeto fall to one’s lot, to fall to the lot of, to befall, to obtain
Laelius: Est, ut dīcis, Catō; sed fortasse dīxerit quispiam tibi propter opēs et cōpiās et dignitātem tuam tolerābiliōrem senectūtem vidērī, id autem nōn posse multīs contingere.
Laelius: It is just as you say, Cato; but perhaps someone might suggest to you that old age seems more bearable to you only because of your wealth, resources, and social standing — and that [such a fortunate lot] cannot fall to many [others].106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior De Senectute 3.8 - to happen, turn out, come to pass
[...] “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.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.94–96
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
tangō; etiam: ``mihi contingit'' = ``mihi accidit bonum''.contingō -ere -tigī — in Mille Verba, Circus Maximus
fit, forte ēvenitcontingit — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 16
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Accidere · Evenire · Contigere · Obvenire · Obtingere
Accidere and evenire denote both favorable and unfavorable occurrences; but the accidentia, unexpected ones, overtaking us by surprise; the evenientia were expected, foreseen; contingere, obvenire, obtingere, are generally confined to fortunate occurrences. The accidentia are fortuitous, the evenientia result from foregoing acts or circumstances; the contingentia are the favors of Fortune; the obtingentia and obvenientia are the things that fall to one’s lot. Cic. Fam. vi. 21. Timebam, ne evenirent, quæ acciderunt: the word evenirent has a subjective reference to his foresight, the word acciderunt is entirely objective; the point of view taken by it being that of those who now manifest surprise. See also Tac. H. iv. 19, and Sen. Ep. 119. Scies plura mala contingere nobis quam accidere. (v. 339.)
Conjugation conjugation 3
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | contingō | contingēbam | contingam | contigī | contigeram | contigerō |
| 2nd sg. | contingis | contingēbās | contingēs | contigistī | contigerās | contigeris |
| 3rd sg. | contingit | contingēbat | continget | contigit | contigerat | contigerit |
| 1st pl. | contingimus | contingēbāmus | contingēmus | contigimus | contigerāmus | contigerimus |
| 2nd pl. | contingitis | contingēbātis | contingētis | contigistis | contigerātis | contigeritis |
| 3rd pl. | contingunt | contingēbant | contingent | contigērunt contigēre | contigerant | contigerint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | contingam | contingerem | contigerim | contigissem |
| 2nd sg. | contingās | contingerēs | contigerīs | contigissēs |
| 3rd sg. | contingat | contingeret | contigerit | contigisset |
| 1st pl. | contingāmus | contingerēmus | contigerīmus | contigissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | contingātis | contingerētis | contigerītis | contigissētis |
| 3rd pl. | contingant | contingerent | contigerint | contigissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | contingor | contingēbar | contingar |
| 2nd sg. | contingeris contingere | contingēbāris contingēbāre | contingēris contingēre |
| 3rd sg. | contingitur | contingēbātur | contingētur |
| 1st pl. | contingimur | contingēbāmur | contingēmur |
| 2nd pl. | contingiminī | contingēbāminī | contingēminī |
| 3rd pl. | continguntur | contingēbantur | contingentur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | contingar | contingerer |
| 2nd sg. | contingāris contingāre | contingerēris contingerēre |
| 3rd sg. | contingātur | contingerētur |
| 1st pl. | contingāmur | contingerēmur |
| 2nd pl. | contingāminī | contingerēminī |
| 3rd pl. | contingantur | contingerentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | continge | contingere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | contingite | contingiminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | contingitō | contingitor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | contingitō | contingitor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | contingitōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | continguntō | continguntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | contingere | contingī |
| perfect infinitive | contigisse | contāctum esse |
| future infinitive | contāctūrum esse | contāctum īrī |
| present participle | contingēns | — |
| perfect participle | — | contāctus contācta, contāctā, contāctae, contāctam, contāctārum, contāctās, contācte, contāctī, contāctīs, contāctō, contāctōrum, contāctōs |
| future participle | contāctūrus contāctūra, contāctūrā, contāctūrae, contāctūram, contāctūrārum, contāctūrās, contāctūre, contāctūrī, contāctūrīs, contāctūrō, contāctūrōrum, contāctūrōs, contāctūrum | contingendus contingundus, contingenda, contingendā, contingendae, contingendam, contingendārum, contingendās, contingende, contingendīs, contingendōrum, contingendōs |
gerundcontingendī, contingendō, contingendumsupinecontāctum, contāctū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- optata mihi contingunt
- my wishes are being fulfilled.
- summa necessitudine aliquem contingere
- to stand in very intimate relations to some one.
con-tingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3, v. a. and n. tango,
I. to touch on all sides. to touch, take hold of, seize (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.:
facile cibum terrestrem rostris, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122: funem manu, Verg. A. 2, 239; cf. Ov. M. 2, 151: munera Cerealia dextrā, id. ib. 11, 122: undas pede, id. ib. 2, 457: focos ore tremente, id. Tr. 1, 3, 44: terram osculo, Liv. 1, 56, 12: ora nati sacro medicamine, Ov. M. 2, 123; cf. id. ib. 14, 607: montes suo igni (sol), Lucr. 4, 407; cf. Cat. 64, 408, and Suet. Ner. 6: cibos sale modico, to sprinkle, Cels. 2, 24: sidera comā (poet. designation for a very great height), Ov. F. 3, 34; cf.: nubes aërio vertice (Taurus), Tib. 1, 7, 15: summa sidera plantis, to reach the stars (a poet. designation of great prosperity), Prop. 1, 8, 43: mitem taurum, Ov. M. 2, 860; cf. id. ib. 8, 423: glebam, id. ib. 11, 111: paene terram (luna), Cic. Div. 2, 43, 91: caules (vitis), id. N. D. 2, 47, 120: dextras consulum (as a friendly greeting or congratulation), Liv. 28, 9, 6; so, manum, Vell. 2, 104, 5; 2, 107, 4.—B. With partic. access. ideas.
1. To eat, partake of, taste (poet.):
neque illinc Audeat esuriens dominus contingere granum, Hor. S. 2, 3, 113: cibos ore, Ov. M. 5, 531: aquas, id. ib. 15, 281: fontem, id. ib. 3, 409.—2. To touch impurely (very rare):
corpus corpore, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 204.—3. To touch, i. e. to be near, neighboring, or contiguous, to border upon, to reach, extend to; with acc., dat., or inter se; with acc.:
Helvi, qui fines Arvernorum contingunt, Caes. B. G. 7, 7 fin.: turri adactā et contingente vallum, id. ib. 5, 43; cf.: in saltu Vescino Falernum contingente agrum, Liv. 10, 21, 8: praesidium coloniarum Illyricum contingentium, Suet. Aug. 25. —With dat.: ut radices montis ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis contingant, Caes. B. G. 1, 38.—With inter se: ut (milites) contingant inter se atque omnem munitionem expleant, Caes. B. C. 1, 21; cf. id. B. G. 7, 23.— 4. With the idea of motion, to reach something by moving, to attain to, reach, come to, arrive at, meet with, etc. (mostly poet.); with acc.:
optatam metam cursu, Hor. A. P. 412: Ephyren pennis, Ov. M. 7, 392: Italiam, Verg. A. 5, 18: fines Illyricos, Ov. M. 4, 568: Creten, id. ib. 8, 100: Cadmeïda arcem, id. ib. 6, 217: rapidas Phasidos undas, id. ib. 7, 6: auras, to come into the air, id. ib. 15, 416 al.: avem ferro, to hit, Verg. A. 5, 509; cf. Ov M. 8, 351: ullum mortalem (vox mea), id. id. 2, 578; cf. thus aures, id. ib. 1, 211; and aures fando, with the acc. and inf., id. ib. 15, 497: aevi florem, to come to or reach the flower of age, Lucr. 1, 565.—II. Trop.
A. In gen., to touch, to seize upon, affect (rare). multitudo agrestium, quos in aliquā suā fortunā publica quoque contingebat cura, Liv. 22, 10, 8:
contactus nullis ante cupidinibus, Prop. 1, 1, 2: quam me manifesta libido contigit! Ov. M. 9, 484: animum curā. Val. Fl. 7, 173; cf.: aliquem (curā), contacti simili sorte, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 78. —Far more freq., B. In partic.
1. (Acc. to I. B. 2.) To touch with pollution, to pollute, stain, defile, etc.; so generally in part. perf. (as a verb. finit. the kindr. contamino was in use):
(Gallos) contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros, Liv. 21, 48, 3; so, contacta civitas rabie duorum juvenum, id. 4, 9, 10: omnes eā violatione templi, id. 29, 8, 11 (for which id. 29, 18, 8: nefandà praedā se ipsos ac domos contaminare suas): plebs regiā praedā, id. 2, 5, 2; cf. id. 4, 15, 8: equi candidi et nullo mortali opere contacti, Tac. G. 10: dies (sc. Alliensis) religione, Liv. 6, 28, 6: pectora vitiis, Tac. Or. 12.—Once absol.: contactus ensis, Sen. Hippol. 714.—2. (Acc. to I. B. 3.) With aliquem aliquā re or only aliquem, to be connected with or related to, to concern:
ut quisque tam foede interemptos aut propinquitate aut amicitiā contingebat, Liv. 25, 8, 2: aliquem sanguine ac genere, id. 45, 7, 3; 24, 22, 14: aliquem artissimo gradu, Suet. Aug. 4: domum Caesarum nullo gradu, id. Galb. 2; cf. absol.: deos (i. e. Maecenatem et Augustum) quoniam propius contingis, have more ready access to the great, Hor. S. 2, 6, 52: Sabinum modico usu, to have little intercourse with, Tac. A. 4, 68: multis in Italiā contactis gentibus Punici belli societate, Liv. 31, 8, 11; cf.: si crĭmine contingantur, have part in, Dig. 11, 4, 1: haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit, concerns not, Liv. 34, 22, 12; cf.: quae (causa) nihil eo facto contingitur, id. 40, 14, 9.—3. (Acc. to I. B. 4.) To attain to, reach, arrive at something, to come to (very rare):
quam regionem cum superavit animus naturamque sui similem contigit et agnovit, Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43.—b. With and without dat. of person; of occurrences, to happen to one, to befall, fall to one's lot, to succeed in, obtain a thing; and absol., to happen, fall to, turn out, come to pass (so most freq. in all perr. and species of composition; in gen., of favorable, but sometimes of indifferent, or even adverse occurrences).
(a). With dat.:
cui tam subito tot contigerint commoda, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 3: haec tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor, id. Hec. 5, 3, 35: quod isti (Crasso) contigit uni, Cic. de Or. 2, 56, 228; 1, 35, 164; id. Off. 1, 43, 153; id. Fam. 5, 21, 1; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 1; Caes. B. G. 1, 43; Quint. 10, 1, 115; 12, 11, 29; Suet. Caes. 35; id. Calig. 3, 10 et saep.; Ov. M. 3, 321; 11, 268; 15, 443; Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 46; 1, 4, 10; 1, 17, 9 et saep.: cum tanto plura bene dicendi exempla supersint quam illis contigerunt, Quint. 10, 2, 28: quam mihi maxime hic hodie contigerit malum, Enn. ap. Non. p. 268, 12: quod (sc. servitus) potentibus populis saepe contigit, Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 15; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16: cum miseri animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret, id. N. D. 1, 11, 27; id. Phil. 14, 8, 24; id. Fam. 5, 16, 5; id. Sen. 19, 71; id. Off. 2, 14, 50; 2, 19, 65; id. Fam. 11, 16, 2 al.: quoties ipsi testatori aliquid contingit, a misfortune befalls, etc., Dig. 28, 3, 6: si quid ei humanitus contigerit, ib. 34, 4, 30 fin. (cf. ib. § 2: sive in viā aliquid mihi humanitus acciderit, and v. 2. accido, II. B.).—Impers. with inf.: non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 36: mihi Romae nutriri atque doceri, id. ib. 2, 2, 41: mihi recusare principatum, Vell. 2, 124, 2: mihi cognoscere (eos), Quint. 12, 11, 3; 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25; 6, 1, 4 al.—And, at the same time, a dat. of the predicate (post-class. and rare): quo tempore mihi fratrique meo destinari praetoribus contigit, Vell. 2, 124, 4: maximo tibi et civi et duci evadere contigit, Val. Max. 5, 4, ext. 2 (in Ov. M. 11, 220, the better read. is nepotem); cf. Haase in Reisig. Lect. p. 794 sq.—With ut: volo hoc oratori contingat, ut, etc., Cic. Brut. 84, 290; id. Off. 1, 1, 3; id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; Quint. 11, 2, 51 al. —(b). With acc. (very rare):
sors Tyrrhenum contigit, fell upon Tyrrhenus, Vell. 1, 1 fin.: Italiam palma frugum, Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109.—(g). Absol. (very freq.):
hanc mi expetivi, contigit, Ter. And. 4, 2, 13: magis adeo id facilitate quam aliā ullā culpā meā contigit, Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15: quod si nulla contingit excusatio, Quint. 11, 1, 81: ubi quid melius contingit et unctius, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 44 et saep.—With abl.: quia memoria atque actio naturā non arte contingant, Quint. 3, 3, 4; so id. 1, 1, 33; 2, 2, 11 al.—With ex: gratia, quae continget ex sermone puro atque dilucido, Quint. 11, 1, 53; so id. 8, 3, 70: ex eādem brassicā contingunt aestivi autumnalesque cauliculi, arise, spring, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 138 al.: nihil horum nisi in complexu loquendi serieque contingit, Quint. 1, 5, 3.—With inf.: fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis Continget, Hor. A. P. 51; Quint. 1, 1, 11; 5, 7, 25: concitare invidiam, etc.... liberius in peroratione contingit, id. 6, 1, 14.—With ut: quod nunquam opinatus fui ... id contigit, ut salvi poteremur domi, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 32; so Quint. 4, 1, 7; 9, 3, 72; 11, 2, 39.con-tingo (-tinguo), ĕre,
I. v. a., to wet, moisten (perh. only in Lucr. and Verg.).
I. Lit.:
oras, pocula circum mellis liquore, Lucr. 1, 938: semina rerum colore, id. 2, 755: lac parco sale, to sprinkle, Verg. G. 3, 403: tonsum corpus amurcā, id. ib. 3, 448. —II. Trop.:
musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, Lucr. 1, 934 and 947; 4, 9 and 22.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
contingō tigī, tāctus, ere
com-+tango, to touch, reach, take hold of, seize: divae vittas, V.: taurum, O.: dextras consulum (in greeting), L.: cibum rostris: funem manu, V.: terram osculo, L.: me igni, scorch, V.: (nummos) velut sacrum, to meddle with, H.: ut neque inter se contingant trabes, Cs.: ut contingant (milites) inter se, stand close together, Cs.: granum, i. e. taste, H.: aquas, O.— To touch, adjoin, border on, reach, extend to: ripas, Cs.: turri contingente vallum, Cs.: agrum, L.: ripae fluminis, Cs.—To reach, attain, come to, arrive at, meet with, strike: metam cursu, H.: Ephyren pennis, O.: Italiam, V.: auras, to come into the air, O.: avem ferro, to hit, V.: aurīs fando, with acc. and inf., O. — Fig., to touch, seize upon, affect: quos publica contingebat cura, L.: contacti artūs, seized (by disease), V.: quam me libido Contigit! I felt, O. — To be connected with, be related to, touch, concern: tam foede interemptos amicitiā, L.: sanguine caelum, Iu.: deos propius, have more ready access to, H.: haec consultatio Romanos nihil contingit, concerns not, L.—To pollute, stain, defile, infest, taint, corrupt (mostly P. perf.): (Gallos) contactos eo scelere, L.: contacta civitas rabie iuvenum, L.: (equi) nullo mortali opere contacti, Ta.: labellis Pocula, Iu. — To attain, reach, arrive at: naturam sui similem.—To happen, befall, fall out, come, take place, turn out, come to pass, occur: tot propter me gaudia illi contigisse laetor, T.: si hoc contigit nemini: quam rem paucis contigisse docebat, Cs.: quod ei merito contigit: cui Omnia contigerant, O.: Quod satis est cui contigit, H.: speciosae (opes) contigerant, he had a respectable fortune, Ta.: ubi quid melius contingit, H.: celeriter antecellere omnibus contigit: Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum, has the luck, H.: Iovis esse nepoti Contigit haud uni, O.: utinam Caesari contigisset, ut esset, etc.
con-tingō (-guō) —, —, ere,
to wet, moisten: (lac) sale, to sprinkle, V.: corpus amurcā, V.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincontingō
Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- Proto-Italic *tangō Latin tangō Latin contingō From con- (“together”) + tangō (“touch”).
Borrowed
- Catalancontingir
- Italiancontingere
Inherited
- Catalanacontènyerfrom Old Catalan contènyer
- Vulgar Latin*contigīre