tactilis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːk.ti.lis/, [ˈt̪äːkt̪ɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.ti.lis/, [ˈt̪äkt̪ilis]

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.