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- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*pel-
- Proto-Indo-European*pleḱ-
- Proto-Italic*plektō
- Latinplectō
- Latincomplector
- Latincomplexu
- Frenchcomplexe
- English todaycomplex
From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complector (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectō (“to weave, braid”). May be analyzed as com- + -plex. See complect. Doublet of complexus.
Words from the same roots
Latincomplexus all →
complexus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.