complexusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

complexus (複数形 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 […]

2. (anatomy) A large muscle of the back, passing from the spine to the head.

Latin

語源 1

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

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /komˈplek.sus/, [kɔmˈpɫ̪ɛks̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /komˈplek.sus/, [komˈplɛksus]

Participle

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

1. embraced
2. surrounded
3. involved

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

語源 2

From complector +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

名詞

complexus m (genitive complexūs); fourth declension

1. an embrace, (euphemistic) a sexual act
2. tie, bond
3. (Late Latin) the totality
4. (Late Latin) society as a whole
5. (Late Latin) understanding

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

参照

• “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
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the book contains something... (not continet aliquid): libro scriptor complexus est aliquid