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
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...simul introgressi sumus. Tum in primis aedibus complexus hominem congratulatusque adsedit. Atque ubi percontatus est, quam diutinum puerperium..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Pater nunc intus suo animo morem gerit: cubat complexus cuius cupiens maxime est; quae illi ad legionem facta..."
