complexus
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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - 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;
nom. sg. perf. part. - 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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...simul introgressi sumus. Tum in primis aedibus complexus hominem congratulatusque adsedit. Atque ubi percontatus est, quam diutinum puerperium..." - L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...sorti suae gratias egit et exilium suum complexus est? De his loquor quos inlustravit fortuna dum vexat: quam..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...numerosque universorum quae agenda sunt et modos mente complexus est; plenus his figuris est quas Plato 'ideas' appellat..." - L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...idem fecit; quartus ipsa infirmitate corporis faciebat indicium. Complexus itaque te, 'carissima' inquit 'filia et hoc unum tota..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...ille Priamus? Non dissimulauit iram et regis genua complexus est, funestam perfusamque cruore fili manum ad os suum..." - L
Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Ergo iam numquam duos, Nisi sic, uidebo? iunge complexus prior, Qui tot labores totque perpessus mala, Longo parentem..." - L
Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...caelum uia. sic ille patriae primus Augustus parens complexus astra est, colitur et templis deus. illum tamen Fortuna..." - T
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Pater nunc intus suo animo morem gerit: cubat complexus cuius cupiens maxime est; quae illi ad legionem facta..."
