conexus

Latin

Alternative forms

• connexus

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin nectō

Latin cōnectō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cōnexus

From cōnectō + -tus (tu-stem abstract suffix).

Noun

cōnexus m (genitive cōnexūs); fourth declension

1. (Lucretian) combination, connection

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnexus	cōnexūs
genitive	cōnexūs	cōnexuum
dative	cōnexuī	cōnexibus
accusative	cōnexum	cōnexūs
ablative	cōnexū	cōnexibus
vocative	cōnexus	cōnexūs

Descendants

• → German: Konnex

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of cōnectō.

Participle

cōnexus (feminine cōnexa, neuter cōnexum); first/second-declension participle

1. connected, linked, fastened

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnexus	cōnexa	cōnexum		cōnexī	cōnexae	cōnexa
genitive	cōnexī	cōnexae	cōnexī		cōnexōrum	cōnexārum	cōnexōrum
dative	cōnexō	cōnexae	cōnexō		cōnexīs
accusative	cōnexum	cōnexam	cōnexum		cōnexōs	cōnexās	cōnexa
ablative	cōnexō	cōnexā	cōnexō		cōnexīs
vocative	cōnexe	cōnexa	cōnexum		cōnexī	cōnexae	cōnexa

Descendants

• English: connex
• French: connexe
• Italian: connesso
• Portuguese: conexo
• Romanian: conex
• Spanish: conexo

References

• “conexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “conexus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be closely connected with each other: conexum et aptum esse inter se