contingence
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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.
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