contiguus Latin · revision 35671

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *th₂-n-g-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔnˈtɪ.ɡu.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [konˈtiː.ɡu.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''contiguus''' (feminine contigua, neuter contiguum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|contingō|-uus|t1=to touch, reach]], from the stem ⟨contig-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|contingō]] is a compound of [[m|la|tangō|t=to touch]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*th₂-n-g-|t=to touch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short note that it is not found before Augustus;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler's first source is Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it in the passive sense “within reach”, of a man come within range of a thrown spear.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its usual sense is “touching, adjoining, neighbouring”: in Ovid, Pyramus and Thisbe live in houses side by side (''contiguas tenuere domos'');^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus uses it of peoples and of parts of the Circus next to the hills, and Pliny the Elder of the moon that seems to touch the mountains.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Grattius transfers it to closely connected arts.^(OLD 2012) Gellius has it of blows that hit their mark,^(Georges 1913) and Ammianus uses it of being close to a given age and of coming within range of a missile.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means near, contiguous.^(Stelten 1995) Niermeyer gives a medieval sense “one's own”.^(Niermeyer 1976) British writers used it of adjoining lands and also of times, “consecutive”, and made the neuter a noun for contiguity.^(DMLBS) English formed ''contiguous'' from it in the 1610s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it for “within reach” of a spear.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of neighbouring houses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of neighbouring peoples.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of a man close to his fiftieth year.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English forms [[m|en|contiguous]] from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|adjacent|alt=Adjacent]], neighbouring, [[m|en|contiguous]] (to something).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Within reach (of a weapon).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(transferred)'' Closely connected, allied.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' One's own.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Consecutive in time.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[incontiguus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}