pertingent

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pertingent.

Adjective

pertingent (comparative more pertingent, superlative most pertingent)

  1. (linguistics) Touching; having direct contact with.
    • 2024 January 22, James A. Crippen, Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology[1], University of British Columbia:
      The -C column applies to suffixes that consist of a lone consonant such as pertingent -t and locative -xʼ, but plural -xʼ is excluded due to morphosemantic cooccurrence constraints.

Synonyms

Latin

Verb

pertingent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of pertingō