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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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 complexae complexō complexīs complexīs complexīs
Accusative complexum complexam complexum complexōs complexās complexa
Ablative complexō complexā complexō complexīs complexīs 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid
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