pertingent

English · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

pertingent

Where it comes from

Ultimately from Latin pertingent.

adjective more pertingent · most pertingent

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.
Similar: juxtacrine

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"pertingent." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pertingent. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

pertingent. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pertingent

Chicago

"pertingent." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pertingent.

BibTeX

@misc{pertingent_2026,
  title = {pertingent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pertingent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}