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(v. a.Subst.adv.) : con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.from stem tag, tango.
* Orig., to bring into contact, touch.
* In gen. (very rare): manus quibus contaminatur,Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.
* To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).
* Lit.: deam Syriam urinā,Suet. Ner. 56: lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),Dig. 47, 11, 1: spiritum,Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice: ingenuos,Petr. 108, 3.
* Trop.: gaudium aegritudine aliquā,to mar, efface,Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4: se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72: sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),Liv. 4, 1, 2: gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,Cic. Dom. 13, 35: ordines neglegentiā,Suet. Vesp. 9: veritatem aliquo mendacio,Cic. Sull. 16, 45: mentem omni scelere,Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.: aliquem scelere,Tac. A. 1, 35; and: se sanguine,Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29: sese maleficio,id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116: se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,Liv. 29, 18, 8 al.—In part. perf.: contaminati facinore,Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so, tot parricidiis,Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15: multis flagitiis,id. Clu. 35, 97: omnibus probris,Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4: judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70: verbum assiduo usu,Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled: se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.: pars civitatis, velut contaminata,id. 4, 4, 6: superstitio,Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al.—So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9: flos aetatis,Suet. Caes. 49: paene omnibus membris,id. Ner. 29.—Sup.: homo sceleribus flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.
* Contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.
* Contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things: ut anteponantur ... integra contaminatis,Cic. Top. 18, 69.—Comp. and adv. not in use.
* Orig., to bring into contact, touch.
* In gen. (very rare): manus quibus contaminatur,Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.
* To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).
* Lit.: deam Syriam urinā,Suet. Ner. 56: lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),Dig. 47, 11, 1: spiritum,Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice: ingenuos,Petr. 108, 3.
* Trop.: gaudium aegritudine aliquā,to mar, efface,Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4: se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72: sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),Liv. 4, 1, 2: gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,Cic. Dom. 13, 35: ordines neglegentiā,Suet. Vesp. 9: veritatem aliquo mendacio,Cic. Sull. 16, 45: mentem omni scelere,Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.: aliquem scelere,Tac. A. 1, 35; and: se sanguine,Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29: sese maleficio,id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116: se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,Liv. 29, 18, 8 al.—In part. perf.: contaminati facinore,Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so, tot parricidiis,Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15: multis flagitiis,id. Clu. 35, 97: omnibus probris,Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4: judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70: verbum assiduo usu,Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled: se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.: pars civitatis, velut contaminata,id. 4, 4, 6: superstitio,Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al.—So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9: flos aetatis,Suet. Caes. 49: paene omnibus membris,id. Ner. 29.—Sup.: homo sceleribus flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.
* Contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.
* Contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things: ut anteponantur ... integra contaminatis,Cic. Top. 18, 69.—Comp. and adv. not in use.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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