Etymology

contact

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Today it means: The act of touching physically; being in close association. Full definition →

Latin contactus
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  1. Latin · derived fromcontactus
  2. English todaycontact

From Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.