Where does “tact” come from?

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

tact (French): tact

Definitions

  1. tact

Ancestry of “tact”, 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

Words derived from “tact”

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