contact

• n. 接触する、付き合う
• vt.接触する
• vi.接触する、付き合う

con-、強調する。-Tact、接触、語源的には触覚、有形と同じ。

contact

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.

1. Friendship means understanding，not agreement.It means forgiveness，not forgetting.It means the memories last，even if contact is lost.

友情は理解であり、妥協ではない。許すことであり、忘れることではない。連絡しなくても、感情は残っています。

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2.The college has brought me into contact with western ideas.

大学に入って西洋の思想に触れさせてくれました。

3.He made contact with someone with an idea for reconditioning laser copiers.

レーザー複写機を修理する人に連絡した。

4.The exiles had been cut off from all contact with their homeland.

亡命者は故郷とのすべてのつながりを断たれた。

5.This morning he had tried every way possible to contact her.

彼は今朝、彼女に連絡する方法を考えていた。