involutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of involvō.

Participle

involūtus (feminine involūta, neuter involūtum); first/second-declension participle

1. enveloped, involved
2. complicated, complex, convoluted
3. overwhelmed
4. curled (up)
5. veiled

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	involūtus	involūta	involūtum		involūtī	involūtae	involūta
Genitive	involūtī	involūtae	involūtī		involūtōrum	involūtārum	involūtōrum
Dative	involūtō		involūtō		involūtīs
Accusative	involūtum	involūtam	involūtum		involūtōs	involūtās	involūta
Ablative	involūtō	involūtā	involūtō		involūtīs
Vocative	involūte	involūta	involūtum		involūtī	involūtae	involūta

Derived terms

• involutō

Descendants

• Catalan: envolt
• Spanish: envuelto
• Italian: involto
• Portuguese: envolto
• Romanian: învolt
• → English: involute
• → French: involuté
• → Italian: involuto
• → Portuguese: involuto
• → Romanian: involut

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make an obscure notion clear by means of definition: involutae rei notitiam definiendo aperire (Or. 33. 116)