pertingent

English

Ultimately from Latin pertingent.

Adjective

pertingent (comparative more pertingent, superlative most pertingent)

1. (linguistics) touching; having direct contact with
   • 2024 January 22, James A. Crippen, Tlingitology Seminar Notes: Background and Morphology‎^[1], University of British Columbia:

     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.

Synonyms

• (biology) juxtacrine

Latin

Verb

pertingent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pertingō