contagium

English

Etymology

Latin contagium (“contagion”).

Noun

contagium

1. (obsolete) contagion; contagious matter
   • Tyndall

     contagium of measles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “contagium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Noun

contāgium n (genitive contāgiī or contāgī); second declension

1. contact, touching
2. contagion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	contāgium	contāgia
Genitive	contāgiī contāgī1	contāgiōrum
Dative	contāgiō	contāgiīs
Accusative	contāgium	contāgia
Ablative	contāgiō	contāgiīs
Vocative	contāgium	contāgia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “contagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contagium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.