contingence
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin contingentia, from contingēns, present passive participle of contingō (“I make contact with, I am touching”).
Noun edit
contingence (countable and uncountable, plural contingences)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
contingency — see contingency
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “contingence”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin contingentia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
contingence f (plural contingences)
- contingence
- (in the plural) contingencies
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “contingence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.