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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of involvō.
Participle
involūtus (feminine involūta, neuter involūtum); first/second-declension participle
- enveloped, involved
- complicated, complex, convoluted
- overwhelmed
- curled (up)
- veiled
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “involutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “involutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- involutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make an obscure notion clear by means of definition: involutae rei notitiam definiendo aperire (Or. 33. 116)