different between complexus vs complexity

English

Etymology

Latin complexus (“embrace”).

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 […]

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom?plek.sus/, [k?m?p???ks??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom?plek.sus/, [k?m?pl??zus]

Participle

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

1. embraced
2. surrounded

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

complexus m (genitive complex?s); fourth declension

1. An embrace

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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
• complexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology

complex +? -ity Partially displaced native English manifoldness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?k.s?.ti/

Noun

complexity (countable and uncountable, plural complexities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
2. (countable) That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.

Synonyms

• complicacy

Antonyms

• simplicity

Derived terms

Related terms

• complexus
• complicate

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