complectare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →complecto, complectere, complecti, complexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
embrace, hug; welcome; encircle, encompass; attain; include, bring in, involve;; lay hold of, grip; seize; grasp, take in/up; sum up; include in scope, cover;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd - Entry →complector, complecti, complexus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
embrace, hug; welcome; encircle, encompass; attain; include, bring in, involve;; lay hold of, grip; seize; grasp, take in/up; sum up; include in scope, cover;
sg. pres. subj. 2nd
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...natali die. DAEM. Ea est profecto. contineri quin complectar non queo. filia mea, salve..." - T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vocabant Sosiclem. SOS. Signa adgnovi, contineri quin complectar non queo. mi germane gemine frater, salve. ego sum Sosicles..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Itaque ut relinquam definitiones sapientiae veteres et totum complectar humanae vitae modum, hoc possum contentus esse: quid..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...libertis adversus patronos observantia. Et ut semel plura complectar, numquam decebit sic adversus tales agere personas quo modo..." - M
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...facile defendere. [118] Ac ne plura complectar—sunt enim innumerabilia—, bene laudata virtus voluptatis aditus intercludat necesse..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...arguam fecisse? sed nolo pluribus: summam rem complectar. quibus igitur rebus amicitia uiolatur? nempe his maxime duabus..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...atque etiam enitendum mihi, ut hunc consensum vestrum complectar, et teneam, et in dies augeam. Etenim memini, tunc..."