tactus

English

Etymology

From Latin tactus.

Noun

tactus (uncountable)

  1. The sense of touch.

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of tangō (“touch”).

Participle

tāctus (feminine tācta, neuter tāctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. touched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
  2. reached, having been reached, arrived at, having been arrived at
  3. attained to, having been attained to
  4. moved, having been moved, affected, having been affected
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative tāctus tācta tāctum tāctī tāctae tācta
genitive tāctī tāctae tāctī tāctōrum tāctārum tāctōrum
dative tāctō tāctae tāctō tāctīs
accusative tāctum tāctam tāctum tāctōs tāctās tācta
ablative tāctō tāctā tāctō tāctīs
vocative tācte tācta tāctum tāctī tāctae tācta

Etymology 2

Noun

tāctus m (genitive tāctūs); fourth declension

  1. contact, the act of touching
    Synonyms: contāgiō, contāctus
  2. influence, effect
    Synonyms: effectus, contāgiō
  3. sense of touch
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tāctus tāctūs
genitive tāctūs tāctuum
dative tāctuī tāctibus
accusative tāctum tāctūs
ablative tāctū tāctibus
vocative tāctus tāctūs
Descendants
  • Catalan: tacte
  • English: tact
  • French: tact
  • Galician: tacto
  • Italian: tatto
  • Occitan: tacte
  • Portuguese: tato
  • Spanish: tacto

References

  • “tactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tactus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • tactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • inspired: divino quodam spiritu inflatus or tactus
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