contagium

English

Etymology

Latin contagium (“contagion”).

Noun

contagium

(obsolete) contagion; contagious matter
- Tyndall
  contagium of measles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for contagium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

contāgium n (genitive contāgiī); second declension

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	contāgium	contāgia
Genitive	contāgiī	contāgiōrum
Dative	contāgiō	contāgiīs
Accusative	contāgium	contāgia
Ablative	contāgiō	contāgiīs
Vocative	contāgium	contāgia

References

contagium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
contagium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
contagium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
contagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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