complexus

== English == === Etymology === Latin complexus (“embrace”). === Noun === complexus (plural complexuses) (dated) A complex, an aggregate of parts (anatomy) A large muscle of the back, passing from the spine to the head. === References === “complexus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Form of complector (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), compound of com- (“together”) and plecto (“to weave, braid”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔmˈpɫɛk.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [komˈplɛk.sus] ==== Participle ==== complexus (feminine complexa, neuter complexum); first/second-declension participle embraced surrounded involved ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== English: complect Spanish: complejo === Etymology 2 === From complector +‎ -tus (action noun suffix). (embrace): Compare typologically Turkish sarılma (a verbal noun of sarılmak, akin to sarmak). ==== 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. === 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “complexus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Souter, Alexander (1949), “complexus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎[2], 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[3], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC