amplexus

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin amplexus (“embrace”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛksəs === Noun === amplexus (uncountable) (zoology) A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process. Synonyms: amplection / amplexion (dated, uncommon), amplexation (dated, uncommon) (botany) In vernation, the situation where two sides of one leaf overlap the two sides of the one above it. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [amˈpɫɛk.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [amˈplɛk.sus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect active participle of amplector (“surround; grasp”). ==== Participle ==== amplexus (feminine amplexa, neuter amplexum); first/second-declension participle having surrounded, encircled, entwined having embraced, clasped, grasped having esteemed having cherished ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From amplector +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== amplexus m (genitive amplexūs); fourth declension clasp, embrace a loving embrace, caress (mostly in the plural) coil circumference ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== English: amplexus === References === “amplexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “amplexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “amplexus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.