English → Latin
“contiguous” in Latin
continuuscontinuous, uninterrupted, successive, lasting; straight, in a row, whole; following one after another, successive, succcōnfīnisbordering on, adjoining, contiguouscontiguusbordering on, neighboring, contiguous
The English word contiguous itself goes back to Latin tangō, through contiguus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
contiguous
continuus (e.g. aer terrae, Sen.): continens alicui loco or cum aliquo loco (e.g. per Cappadociae partem eam, quae cum Cilicia continens est, Cic.; continentia atque adjuncta praedia huic fundo, Cic.). (the words are found in this connection and order), continens atque adjunctus (alicui loco): conjunctus alicui loco (Caes., Nep..; not cum aliquo loco, since that would imply “intermixture,” “internal connexion,” Held ad Caes., B.C., 64): confinis (having a common frontier): contiguus (e.g., contiguas tenuere domos, Ov., Poet., and later prose writers). To be contiguous, adjacere, imminere alicui terrae: tangere, attingere, contingere terram (especially of contiguous countries): continentes or continuos (poetically, contiguos) esse (of houses): contingere inter se (of which each touches the other): our houses are contiguous, continuas habemus or tenemus domos (after Ov., Met., 4, 57, Vid :, Gierig.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for contiguous?
- The usual Latin words for “contiguous” are continuus, cōnfīnis, contiguus. 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.