The story
- Latin · derived fromcontiguus“bordering upon”
- Late Latin · derived fromcontiguitās
- French · borrowed fromcontiguïté
- English todaycontiguity
From French contiguïté (whence -ity), from Late Latin contiguitās, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from contingō (“to touch or border upon”).
Words from the same roots
Latincontiguus all →
contiguous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.