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pertingent

pertingent adjective: touching; having direct contact with.

Adjective

pertingent (comparative more pertingent, superlative most pertingent)

  1. Touching; having direct contact with.
    • The -C column applies to suffixes that consist of a lone consonant such as pertingent -t and locative -xʼ, but plural -xʼ is excluded due to morphosemantic cooccurrence constraints.2024 January 22, James A. Crippen, Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology, University of British Columbia
    Synonyms:
    juxtacrine

Synonyms of pertingent

Forms of pertingent

comparativemore pertingent
superlativemost pertingent

Origin of pertingent

Ultimately from Latin pertingent.

Questions about pertingent

What does pertingent mean?
Pertingent means touching; having direct contact with.
What part of speech is pertingent?
Pertingent is an adjective.

Words near pertingent in the dictionary

  1. pertinent
  2. pertinently
  3. pertinentness
  4. pertinents
  5. perting
  6. pertingent
  7. pertish
  8. pertly
  9. pertness
  10. pertnesses
  11. pertook

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