The story
- Medieval Latin · derived fromcontingens“possible, contingent”
- Old French · derived fromcontingent
- English todaycontingent
From Middle English, from Old French contingent (whence con- and -ent), from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.