innecto

innecto

Latin

Etymology

    From in- + nectō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    innectō (present infinitive innectere, perfect active innexuī, supine innexum); third conjugation

    1. to bind, tie, join, connect or fasten to, together or about
    2. (figuratively) to weave, frame, contrive
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.51:
        “[...] indulgē hospitiō, causāsque innecte morandī, [...].”
        “[Then, Dido,] you must give yourself up to [every] hospitality, and you must contrive pretexts for [Aeneas’s further] delays, [...].”
    3. (figuratively) to implicate, entangle

    Conjugation

    References

    • innecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • innecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • innecto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • innecto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016