English

Noun

complexus ‎(plural complexuses)

1. (dated) A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
   • 1827, The Oriental Herald (volume 14, page 85)

     Whenever any of the great complexuses of the nerves, by intestine jars, have entangled themselves, at my approach they range into regular order, and give mutual assistance to each other in a friendly embracing intercourse […]

Latin

Etymology

Form of complector ‎(“I entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), compound of com- ‎(“together”) and plecto ‎(“I weave, braid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈplek.sus/, [kɔmˈpɫɛk.sʊs]

Participle

complexus m ‎(feminine complexa, neuter complexum); first/second declension

1. embraced
2. surrounded

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

complexus m ‎(genitive complexūs); fourth declension

1. An embrace

Inflection

Fourth declension.

References

• complexus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• complexus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “complexus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid