English → Latin
“contagion” in Latin
contingōto touch on all sides, take hold of, come into contact with; to reach (by moving), attain to, come to, arrive at, meet wcontāgiōcontact, touch; intercourse (social); influencelucrumprofit, advantage; love of gain, avariceaccolaone who lives near a place; a neighbor
The English word contagion itself goes back to Latin contāgiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
contagion
contactus (PROP., and tropically as act): contagio (contagium only in post-Augustan prose; in plur. in poets, lucri, Hor.: the infection and the disease itself; PROP., and tropically). They keep their morals pure from contagion, mores sinceros integrosque a contagione servant (with genitive of the persons from whom the infection proceeds; e.g., accolarum). To infect a whole flock by contagion, universum gregem contagione prosternere: the disease propagates itself by contagion, contactu morbus in alios vulgatur: crime, like a plague, spreads amongst the well-disposed by contagion, licentia scelerum. quasi tabes, ad integros contactu procedit (Sall., Fragm., 1, 19, p. 220). Vid: CONTAGIOUSNESS.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for contagion?
- The usual Latin words for “contagion” are contingō, contāgiō, lucrum; also accola. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.