Post by t-bob on Jan 28, 2019 10:26:48 GMT -5
PLEXUS
noun
1. any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts: the plexus of international relations.
2. a network, as of nerves or blood vessels.
Quotes
... as he thrust his bold hand into the plexus of the money-market, he was delightedly unaware of how he shook the pillars of existence ... -- Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker, 1891 ... wearing jeans and a loose flannel shirt revealing a dark plexus of tattoos on his chest and arms, Rosenberg intently fielded questions about “Confessions of the Fox.” -- Peter Haldeman, "The Coming of Age in Transgender Literature," New York Times, October 24, 2018
Origin
Plexus is a straightforward borrowing of Latin plexus “twining, braid, plaiting,” a very rare noun that appears first (and only) in the Roman poet and astrologer Marcus Manilius (1st century a.d.), who wrote a long, tedious poem on astronomy. Plexus is a derivative of the verb plectere “to twine, plait,” from the Proto-Indo-European root plek, plok- “to braid, plait,” from which Greek derives plékein “to twine, plait” and plokḗ “a twining, twisting.” The root plek-, plok- regularly becomes fleh-, flah- in Germanic, which, with the addition of the suffix -s, becomes fleax in Old English (English flax). Plexus entered English in the 17th century
noun
1. any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts: the plexus of international relations.
2. a network, as of nerves or blood vessels.
Quotes
... as he thrust his bold hand into the plexus of the money-market, he was delightedly unaware of how he shook the pillars of existence ... -- Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrecker, 1891 ... wearing jeans and a loose flannel shirt revealing a dark plexus of tattoos on his chest and arms, Rosenberg intently fielded questions about “Confessions of the Fox.” -- Peter Haldeman, "The Coming of Age in Transgender Literature," New York Times, October 24, 2018
Origin
Plexus is a straightforward borrowing of Latin plexus “twining, braid, plaiting,” a very rare noun that appears first (and only) in the Roman poet and astrologer Marcus Manilius (1st century a.d.), who wrote a long, tedious poem on astronomy. Plexus is a derivative of the verb plectere “to twine, plait,” from the Proto-Indo-European root plek, plok- “to braid, plait,” from which Greek derives plékein “to twine, plait” and plokḗ “a twining, twisting.” The root plek-, plok- regularly becomes fleh-, flah- in Germanic, which, with the addition of the suffix -s, becomes fleax in Old English (English flax). Plexus entered English in the 17th century
