Where does “tactus” come from?

tactus (English) comes from Latin tāctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

tactus (English): The sense of touch

Definitions

  1. The sense of touch

Ancestry of “tactus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintāctustouched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin tāctus →
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