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perplexus
perplexus
Latin
Adjective
perplexus m (feminine perplexa, neuter perplexum); first/second declension
- entangled, involved, intricate, confused
- (figuratively) unintelligible, complicated, intricate, inscrutable, ambiguous; dark, obscure
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | perplexus | perplexa | perplexum | perplexī | perplexae | perplexa | |
| genitive | perplexī | perplexae | perplexī | perplexōrum | perplexārum | perplexōrum | |
| dative | perplexō | perplexō | perplexīs | ||||
| accusative | perplexum | perplexam | perplexum | perplexōs | perplexās | perplexa | |
| ablative | perplexō | perplexā | perplexō | perplexīs | |||
| vocative | perplexe | perplexa | perplexum | perplexī | perplexae | perplexa | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- French: perplexe
References
- perplexus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- perplexus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “perplexus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.