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
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...natali die. DAEM. Ea est profecto. contineri quin complectar non queo. filia mea, salve..."Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vocabant Sosiclem. SOS. Signa adgnovi, contineri quin complectar non queo. mi germane gemine frater, salve. ego sum Sosicles..."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..."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..."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..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...arguam fecisse? sed nolo pluribus: summam rem complectar. quibus igitur rebus amicitia uiolatur? nempe his maxime duabus..."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..."