Etymology

tangible

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Today it means: Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch. Full definition →

Middle French tangible ← Late Latin tangibilis ← Latin tangere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtangere“to touch”
  2. Late Latin · derived fromtangibilis
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromtangible
  4. English todaytangible

Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”)

Words from the same roots

Late Latintangibilis all →

intangible

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