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Galician
Adjective
complexo (feminine complexa, masculine plural complexos, feminine plural complexas)
- complex
- Synonym: difícil
Interlingua
Noun
complexo (plural complexos)
- complex, something consisting of many elements
Latin
Etymology
From complector + -tō.
Pronunciation
Verb
complexō (present infinitive complexāre, perfect active complexāvī, supine complexātum); first conjugation
- to encompass
- to embrace
Conjugation
References
- “complexo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- complexo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Fortune's favourite: is, quem fortuna complexa est
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin complexus (“embraced; surrounded”), from complector (“to encircle”).
Adjective
complexo (feminine complexa, masculine plural complexos, feminine plural complexas)
- complex; intricate (having a great deal of fine detail or complexity)
- Antonym: simples
- complex; complicated (not simple or straightforward)
- Synonyms: complicado, difícil
- Antonyms: fácil, simple
- (mathematics) complex (of a number, involving the square root of -1)
- (grammar, of a clause’s subject or object) compound (composed of elements)
Coordinate terms
Noun
complexo m (plural complexos)
- compound (group of buildings situated close together)
- (psychology) complex (mental factors unconsciously associated with a subject)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
complexo
- first-person singular present indicative of complexar