Latin

Verb

tongeō ‎(present infinitive tongēre); second conjugation, no perfect

1. (transitive, rare) I know

   A: Illam musicam tonges? B: Sic, tongeo, praeter auctorem. Me dicere posses? A: Scilicet! Si illum tongerem... B: Quod miserum, nos illum non tongemus. Quaerabimus? A: Sic, consobrinam meam interrogabo an illum tongeat. B: Bene! Ego consobrinum meum de illo rogabo.‎

   A: Do you know this music? B: Yes, I know it, but not the composer. Would you tell it me? A: Of course! If I knew it... B: What a pity, we don't know him. Will we search for? A: Yes, I'll ask my cousine if she knows him. B: Good! I'll ask my cousin of him.

   • AD 8th C., Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 357, line 3:

     Tongere nosse est, nam Praenestini tongitionem dicunt notionem. Ennius: “Alii rhetorica tongent.”

Conjugation

• No perfect or supine forms.

Synonyms

• (I know): sciō

Derived terms

• tongitiō

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tongĕo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,581/3.
• “tongeō” on page 1,948/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)