tactus

English

Etymology

From Latin tactus. Doublet of tact.

Noun

tactus (uncountable)

  1. The sense of touch.
  2. (music) beat, pulse

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

    From tangō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

    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 (2003-2026), 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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