Etymograph

English

implex

Implex comes from Latin implexus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimplexus
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1711implex

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimplexus
  2. Englishearliest quotation c. 1711implex

Earliest quotation: c. 1711, Joseph Addison: “The fable of every poem is, according to Aristotle’s…”

Today it means

adj Intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin implexus / implex