contextus

Perfect passive participle of Latin contexō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɛk.stʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtɛk.stus]

contextus (feminine contexta, neuter contextum, adverb contextē); first/second-declension participle

1. interwoven
2. connected, coherent
3. continuous, uninterrupted, unbroken

First/second-declension adjective.

From contexō + -tus (forming action nouns).

• contextus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɛk.stʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtɛk.stus]
• contextūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɛk.stuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtɛk.stus]

contextus m (genitive contextūs); fourth declension

1. a weaving, knitting
2. a joining
3. connection, coherence
4. structure, fabric
5. context

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italian: contesto
• French: contexte
• Spanish: contexto
• English: context

• “contextus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contextus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contextus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contextus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contextus / contextŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
    
• Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. I. p. 834.