attingo

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atˈtin.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: at‧tìn‧go

Verb

attingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of attingere

Anagrams

• Angotti, gattino, gattoni

Latin

Alternative forms

• adtingō

Etymology

From ad- +‎ tangō (“touch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /atˈtin.ɡoː/, [ät̪ˈt̪ɪŋɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈtin.ɡo/, [ät̪ˈt̪iŋɡo]

Verb

attingō (present infinitive attingere, perfect active attigī, supine attāctum); third conjugation

1. to come in contact with, touch
2. to assault; strike, attack
3. (in eating) to touch, taste
4. to approach, reach, arrive at
5. to be contiguous to, lie near, border upon
6. to touch, affect, interest, reach
7. to mention slightly, touch upon
8. to undertake, enter upon, engage in,
9. to be similar; to belong, relate or appertain to, concern

Conjugation

Conjugation of attingō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	attingō	attingis	attingit	attingimus	attingitis	attingunt
	imperfect	attingēbam	attingēbās	attingēbat	attingēbāmus	attingēbātis	attingēbant
	future	attingam	attingēs	attinget	attingēmus	attingētis	attingent
	perfect	attigī	attigistī	attigit	attigimus	attigistis	attigērunt, attigēre
	pluperfect	attigeram	attigerās	attigerat	attigerāmus	attigerātis	attigerant
	future perfect	attigerō	attigeris	attigerit	attigerimus	attigeritis	attigerint
passive	present	attingor	attingeris, attingere	attingitur	attingimur	attingiminī	attinguntur
	imperfect	attingēbar	attingēbāris, attingēbāre	attingēbātur	attingēbāmur	attingēbāminī	attingēbantur
	future	attingar	attingēris, attingēre	attingētur	attingēmur	attingēminī	attingentur
	perfect	attāctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	attāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	attāctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	attingam	attingās	attingat	attingāmus	attingātis	attingant
	imperfect	attingerem	attingerēs	attingeret	attingerēmus	attingerētis	attingerent
	perfect	attigerim	attigerīs	attigerit	attigerīmus	attigerītis	attigerint
	pluperfect	attigissem	attigissēs	attigisset	attigissēmus	attigissētis	attigissent
passive	present	attingar	attingāris, attingāre	attingātur	attingāmur	attingāminī	attingantur
	imperfect	attingerer	attingerēris, attingerēre	attingerētur	attingerēmur	attingerēminī	attingerentur
	perfect	attāctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	attāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	attinge	—	—	attingite	—
	future	—	attingitō	attingitō	—	attingitōte	attinguntō
passive	present	—	attingere	—	—	attingiminī	—
	future	—	attingitor	attingitor	—	—	attinguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		attingere	attigisse	attāctūrum esse	attingī	attāctum esse	attāctum īrī
participles		attingēns	—	attāctūrus	—	attāctus	attingendus, attingundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		attingendī	attingendō	attingendum	attingendō	attāctum	attāctū

Derived terms

• attāctus
• attiguus
• attingēns

Related terms

• contingō
• obtingō
• pertingō
• tangō

Descendants

• → Esperanto: atingi
• Galician: atanguer, atinxir
• → Ido: atingar
• Italian: attingere
• Old French: ataindre
  • → English: attain
  • French: atteindre
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: aténher
  • Catalan: atènyer
• → Portuguese: atingir (learned)
• Romanian: atinge, atingere
• Spanish: atañer, → atingir (learned)

References

• “attingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• attingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: tangere, attingere terram
    
  • to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
    
  • to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences: primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
    
  • to touch briefly on a thing: breviter tangere, attingere aliquid
    
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
    
  • to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): quasi praeteriens, in transitu attingere aliquid
    
  • to dwell only on the main points: res summas attingere
    
  • the battering-ram strikes the wall: aries murum attingit, percutit