conplexu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conplecto, conplectere, conplecti, conplexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- 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;
abl. sg. - Entry →conplexus, conplexus:
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
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...fecit monstra fides. inter mensasque torosque 245quae modo conplexu fouerunt pectora caedunt;et quamuis primo ferrum strinxere gementes..." - M
VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...pereunte fecerunt, hoc corpus, haec membra, quae de conplexu latronis vulnera nulla retulerunt. sive hoc poenam sive vultis..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quam mortem. explica nos, pater, tam misero tristique conplexu et longissimas sollicitudines brevi recide patientia; minus indignum..." - M
I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...Iratus igitur senex tenet iuvenem suum velut interiore conplexu et a limine obstat? Rogo, quod duos separat media..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ramos, crescendo iungi pariterque adolescere cernit, sic ubi conplexu coierunt membra tenaci, nec duo sunt et forma duplex..."
