complexus
English
Etymology
Latin complexus (“embrace”).
Noun
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Etymology 1
Form of complector (“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), compound of com- (“together”) and plecto (“I weave, braid”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈplek.sus/, [kɔmˈpɫ̪ɛks̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈplek.sus/, [komˈplɛksus]
Participle
complexus (feminine complexa, neuter complexum); first/second-declension participle
- embraced
- surrounded
- involved
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| 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 | |
Etymology 2
From complector + -tus (action noun suffix).
Noun
complexus m (genitive complexūs); fourth declension
- an embrace, (euphemistic) a sexual act
- tie, bond
- (Late Latin) the totality
- (Late Latin) society as a whole
- (Late Latin) understanding
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| 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
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
- complexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Souter, Alexander (1949), “complexus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 65
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “complexus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101