contact [E17th] Contact and contagion [LME] both go back to Latin contingere ‘touch’ formed from con- ‘with’ and tangere ‘touch’. Contaminate [LME] is related.
英语词源词典收录了6069条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。