complexus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
complexus (plural complexuses)
- (dated) A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
- 1827, The Oriental Herald (volume 14, page 85)
- Whenever any of the great complexuses of the nerves, by intestine jars, have entangled themselves, at my approach they range into regular order, and give mutual assistance to each other in a friendly embracing intercourse […]
- 1827, The Oriental Herald (volume 14, page 85)
- (anatomy) A large muscle of the back, passing from the spine to the head.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for complexus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Form of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), compound of com- (“together”) and plecto (“I weave, braid”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
complexus m (feminine complexa, neuter complexum); first/second declension
Inflection[edit]
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | complexus | complexa | complexum | complexī | complexae | complexa | |
Genitive | complexī | complexae | complexī | complexōrum | complexārum | complexōrum | |
Dative | complexō | complexō | complexīs | ||||
Accusative | complexum | complexam | complexum | complexōs | complexās | complexa | |
Ablative | complexō | complexā | complexō | complexīs | |||
Vocative | complexe | complexa | complexum | complexī | complexae | complexa |
Noun[edit]
complexus m (genitive complexūs); fourth declension
- An embrace
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | complexus | complexūs |
Genitive | complexūs | complexuum |
Dative | complexuī | complexibus |
Accusative | complexum | complexūs |
Ablative | complexū | complexibus |
Vocative | complexus | complexūs |
References[edit]
- complexus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- complexus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- complexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid
- the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid
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