flexus
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin.
Noun edit
flexus (plural flexus)
- (astronomy, geology) A low, curvilinear ridge with a scalloped pattern.
- (dentistry) In infolding of enamel that separates lophs on an upper tooth.
- 1955, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 29, page 130:
- A flexid or flexus is said to abut when the enamel of the flexid or flexus touches the enamel of the opposite side of the tooth. The distal end or termination of the flexid or flexus is described as flattened, rounded or narrowed.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From flectō (“bend”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈflek.sus/, [ˈfɫ̪ɛks̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈflek.sus/, [ˈflɛksus]
Noun edit
flexus m (genitive flexūs); fourth declension
- a bending, turning, winding
- a transition, changing
- (of speech) modulation, inflection of the voice
- (grammar) inflection
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | flexus | flexūs |
Genitive | flexūs | flexuum |
Dative | flexuī | flexibus |
Accusative | flexum | flexūs |
Ablative | flexū | flexibus |
Vocative | flexus | flexūs |
Synonyms edit
- (grammar) flexura
Descendants edit
Participle edit
flexus (feminine flexa, neuter flexum); first/second-declension participle
- bent, curved, having been bent.
- turned, having been turned around.
- (figuratively) persuaded, having been prevailed upon.
- (grammar) declined, conjugated, having been inflected.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | flexus | flexa | flexum | flexī | flexae | flexa | |
Genitive | flexī | flexae | flexī | flexōrum | flexārum | flexōrum | |
Dative | flexō | flexō | flexīs | ||||
Accusative | flexum | flexam | flexum | flexōs | flexās | flexa | |
Ablative | flexō | flexā | flexō | flexīs | |||
Vocative | flexe | flexa | flexum | flexī | flexae | flexa |
Related terms edit
References edit
- “flexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flexus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- flexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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