tactio

From tangō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtaːk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtak.t͡si.o]

tāctiō f (genitive tāctiōnis); third declension

1. (Plautine) a touching (not found outside the set phrase tāctiō esse, see usage notes)
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.2.25–27:

     Therapontigonus: Em tibi. ¶ Curculio: O cives, cives. Therapontigonus: Quid clamas? Phaedromus: Quid tibi istum tactio est? ¶ Therapontigonus: Quia mihi lubitum est.

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   • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 3.2.9:

     Sed quid tibi nos tactiost, mendice homo?

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   • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 4.10.14:

     Quid tibi ergo meam me invito tactiost?

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   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 2.6.53–56:

     Olympio: Em tibi [Chalino]. ¶ Cleostrata: Quid tibi istunc tactiost? Oympio: Quia Iuppiter iussit meus. ¶ Cleostrata: Feri malam ut ille rursum. Olympio: Perii: pugnis caedor, Iuppiter. ¶ Lysidamus: Quid tibi tactio hunc fuit? Chalinus: Quia iussit haec Iuno mea.

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2. (very rare) the sense of touch; (countable) a sensing by touch
   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 4.20:

     […] ; et qualis est haec [voluptas delectatio] aurium, tales sunt et oculorum et tactionum et odorationum et saporum, quae sunt omnes unius generis ad perfundendum animum tamquam inliquefactae voluptates.

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Used by Plautus quasi-verbally in the expression tāctiō alicui esse, "for someone to touch", with a direct object in the accusative: quid tibī hanc digitō tāctiō est?, "what business is it of yours touching her with your finger?" (Poenulus, 5.5.29).

Third-declension noun.

• “tactĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tactĭo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• tāctio in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “tactio”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC