complectens
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...capiat — in se reuertatur. Nam mundus quoque cuncta complectens rectorque uniuersi deus in exteriora quidem tendit, sed tamen..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...veridicos Parcae coeperunt edere cantus. his corpus tremulum complectens undique vestis candida purpurea talos incinxerat ora, at roseae..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...cura quaedam quasi foras spectans aliosque appetens atque complectens, existit illud, ut amici, ut fratres, ut propinqui..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...Oceanus ambit, latos sinus et insularum inmensa spatia complectens, nuper cognitis quibusdam gentibus ac regibus, quos bellum aperuit..."