The corpus record — Latin

tactio

tactio · f

a touching

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Where it lives

Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Casina 2 · 2.58/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

tactĭo — Lewis & Short

tactĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I Lit., a touching, touch (Plautin.), as a verbal noun with acc.: quid tibi hanc digito tactio est? Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 29; id. Aul. 3, 2, 9; 4, 10, 14; id. Cas. 2, 6, 56; id. Curc. 5, 2, 27. — *

II Transf., the sense of touch, feeling: oculorum et tactionum et odorationum et saporum (voluptates), Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 20.

In the wild

tactio Plautus, Casina 2.6
tactio Plautus, Poenulus 5.5
tactiost Plautus, Menaechmi 5.7
tactio Plautus, Curculio 5.2
tactio Plautus, Casina 2.6
tactionum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.20

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.