Our Name

We gave a lot of thought to both our name and our logo before we established our company. Although our name has a familiar ring to the sound, the word "intangere" (pronounced "in-TAN-jeer") does not exist in either the English, French, German or Spanish dictonaries. This has caused many to ask us where our name comes from. 

The word "intangere" is a combination of two Latin words:

• "in" - meaning "no" or "not" and
• "tangere" - meaning "touch".

So the word "intangere" literally means "no touch" or "untouched".

Intangere is the root of the word "integer" which is "a whole number" or "a thing complete in itself" according to the Oxford Dictionary of English.

If you think of it as something that has not been broken, damaged or defiled, you can see how the word "integrity" is also derived from intangere. Integrity - "the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles" - is what our company, Intangere, is all about.

In fact, integrity is an integral part of how we do business. The word integral, again, is derived from the root Latin "intangere".

By now you can probably guess that one of our key business specialties, integration, has its root in the word intangere.

The word "intangible" is also derived from intangere. Something that is intangible is "unable to be touched; not having a physical presence; difficult or impossible to define or understand". The quality of integrity is not a tangible quality, but without it successful business is not possible.

Another word that factors in is the word "tangent" which is also derived from the root tangere. A tangent is a line that touches a circle, but as a figure of speach, one who goes off on a tangent has lost focus. Thus, intangere - no tangents - embraces the idea of focus on a specific goal.

Intangere thus embodies all of these thoughts in its philosophy of promoting that intangible quality of integrity that is integral to focusing on successful customer relationships.