contactu

contactu is a Latin form of contingo, meaning “touch; happen; (+dat.) befall”.

It can also be a form of contactus, “touch, contact; contagion, infection, pollution”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or supine dative singular neuter.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 3.227: diripiuntque dapes, contactuque omnia foedant

Ovid, Amores 3.2.22: Contactu lateris laeditur ista tui.

All forms of contingo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.