English
contrectation
Contrectation comes from Latin contrectātio ‘a touch, contact’, from tractō ‘to handle’, and ultimately from trahō ‘to drag, pull’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag, pull’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractō‘to handle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcontrectō‘to touch’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcontrectātio‘a touch, contact’
- Englishearliest quotation 1915contrectation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag, pull’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtractō‘to handle’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcontrectō‘to touch’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcontrectātio‘a touch, contact’
- Englishearliest quotation 1915contrectation
Earliest quotation: 1915, Bernard Simon Talmey, Love: “Most animals have no desire for contrectation. In man…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
draw, train, draft, drag, retreat, distraction, extraction, draught, abstraction, contraction, subtraction, abstractly, 47 more
through Latin trahō ‘to drag, pull’
treat, portrait, attractive, abstract, extract, trait, tractor, distract, attraction, tram, traction, retract, trattoria, tractable, 32 more
through Latin tractō ‘to handle’
Today it means
noun The initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / contrectation