complexus

English

Etymology

Latin complexus (“embrace”).

Noun

complexus (plural complexuses)

1. (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 […]

2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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Latin

Etymology

Form of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), compound of com- (“together”) and plecto (“I weave, braid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈplek.sus/, [kɔmˈpɫɛk.sʊs]

Participle

complexus m (feminine complexa, neuter complexum); first/second declension

1. embraced
2. surrounded

Inflection

First/second declension.

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

complexus m (genitive complexūs); fourth declension

1. An embrace

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	complexus	complexūs
Genitive	complexūs	complexuum
Dative	complexuī	complexibus
Accusative	complexum	complexūs
Ablative	complexū	complexibus
Vocative	complexus	complexūs

References

• 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