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contingeret

contingeret is a Latin form of contingo, meaning “touch; happen; (+dat.) befall”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.24.2: Cum is murum hostium paene contingeret, et Caesar ad opus consuetudine excubaret militesque hortaretur, ne quod omnino tempus ab opere intermitteretur, paulo ante tertiam vigiliam est animadversum fumare aggerem, quem cuniculo hostes succenderant,

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.