contact: [17] The underlying notion of contact is not surprisingly one of ‘touching’. It comes ultimately from Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile, tangent, and tangible. Using the prefix com- ‘together’ this was formed into a compound verb contangere ‘touch, border on’, whose past participle contāctus was borrowed into English, originally as a noun (its use as a verb is a surprisingly late development, which did not happen until the late 19th century). Also derived from Latin contangere is contagion [14], and contaminate is probably related. => contagion, contaminate, tactile, tangent, tangible
contact (v.)
1834, "put in contact," from contact (n.). Meaning "get in touch with" is 1927, American English. Related: Contacted; contacting.
contact (n.)
1620s, "action of touching," from Latin contactus "a touching," from past participle of contingere "to touch, seize," from com- "together" (see com-) + tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)).
Figurative sense of "connection, communication" is from 1818. As a signal to the person about to spin an aircraft propeller that the ignition is switched on, the word was in use by 1913. Contact lens is first recorded 1888; short form contact is from 1961.
雙語例句
1. Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
友情是理解，不是妥協；是原諒，不是遺忘。即使不聯系，感情依然在。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
2. The college has brought me into contact with western ideas.
上大學使我接觸了西方的思想。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He made contact with someone with an idea for reconditioning laser copiers.
他聯系了一個會修理激光復印機的人。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The exiles had been cut off from all contact with their homeland.
流亡者被切斷了與家鄉的所有聯系。
來自柯林斯例句
5. This morning he had tried every way possible to contact her.