attactus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [atˈtaːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈtak.tus]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of attingō.

Participle

attāctus (feminine attācta, neuter attāctum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been touched, assaulted, approached, etc.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	attāctus	attācta	attāctum		attāctī	attāctae	attācta
genitive	attāctī	attāctae	attāctī		attāctōrum	attāctārum	attāctōrum
dative	attāctō	attāctae	attāctō		attāctīs
accusative	attāctum	attāctam	attāctum		attāctōs	attāctās	attācta
ablative	attāctō	attāctā	attāctō		attāctīs
vocative	attācte	attācta	attāctum		attāctī	attāctae	attācta

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-

Proto-Italic *tangō

Latin tangō

Latin attingō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin attāctus

From attingō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

attāctus m (genitive attāctūs); fourth declension

1. touch, contact

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	attāctus	attāctūs
genitive	attāctūs	attāctuum
dative	attāctuī	attāctibus
accusative	attāctum	attāctūs
ablative	attāctū	attāctibus
vocative	attāctus	attāctūs

References

• “attactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “attactus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.