complectuntur
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;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd - 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;
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...possis aequo animo vitam relinquere, quam multi sic complectuntur et tenent quomodo qui aqua torrente rapiuntur spinas..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Pusillum tibi exemplar magnae rei ponam : oua tantum complectuntur humoris quantum ad effectum animalis exituri satis..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...memoriam adiuvet. XIX. tum quae scripserunt vel cogitatione complectuntur [et] aliquo signo quo moneantur notant, quod esse..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oratione persuasibile. Qui fines et ipsi solam complectuntur inuentionem. Quod uitium fugiens Eudorus uim putat inueniendi et eloquendi..."