complexu
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;
abl. sg. - Entry →complexus, complexus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surrounding, encompassing, encircling; clasp, grasp, hold, embrace; inclusion;; sexual intercourse (w/Venerius/femineus); hand-to-hand fighting; stranglehold;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...alios alibi congressus materiai, qualis hic est, avido complexu quem tenet aether. Praeterea cum materies est multa parata..."Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nuntius acerbi funeris perculit, cum tenemus corpus e complexu nostro in ignem transiturum, lacrimas naturalis necessitas exprimit..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...esse clusum cui mors aperta est, et in complexu libertatis exspirat. Aeque reliqua quoque inter se paria sunt..."ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...unde uera uis materni doloris oritur: 'ergo complexu fili carissimi careo; non conspectu eius, non sermone possum frui..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...recludentem et gentes ferocissimas Romano subicientem imperio in complexu et in osculis suis amisit: modum tamen lugendi..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...contra quam exiguae noctes uidentur, quas in complexu scortorum aut uino exigunt! Inde etiam poetarum furor fabulis humanos..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nobis' inquit 'et coniunx eris; prohibetur undis', meque complexu ferens gressum citabat. non tenent undae Herculem: 'infide uector..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...diffusus in omnis undique partis omnia sic avido complexu cetera saepsit. hunc exordia sunt solis lunaeque secuta, interutrasque..."
