tactilis

Latin

Etymology

From tāct- (perfect passive participial stem of tangō (“to touch”)) +‎ -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

Adjective

tāctilis (neuter tāctile); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. tangible

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative tāctilis tāctile tāctilēs tāctilia
genitive tāctilis tāctilium
dative tāctilī tāctilibus
accusative tāctilem tāctile tāctilēs
tāctilīs 		tāctilia
ablative tāctilī tāctilibus
vocative tāctilis tāctile tāctilēs tāctilia

Descendants

  • Catalan: tàctil
  • → English: tactile
  • French: tactile
  • Galician: táctil
  • Italian: tattile
  • Occitan: tactil
  • Portuguese: táctil
  • Spanish: táctil

References

  • “tactilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tactilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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