flexus

From Latin.

flexus (plural flexus)

1. (astronomy, geology) A low, curvilinear ridge with a scalloped pattern.
2. (dentistry) In infolding of enamel that separates lophs on an upper tooth.
   • 1955, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 29, page 130:

     A flexid or flexus is said to abut when the enamel of the flexid or flexus touches the enamel of the opposite side of the tooth. The distal end or termination of the flexid or flexus is described as flattened, rounded or narrowed.

• punctus flexus

• fluxes, sexful

From flectō (“bend”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈflek.sus/, [ˈfɫ̪ɛks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflek.sus/, [ˈflɛksus]

flexus m (genitive flexūs); fourth declension

1. a bending, turning, winding
2. a transition, changing
3. (of speech) modulation, inflection of the voice
4. (grammar) inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

• (grammar) flexura

• → English: flex, flexus
• → Italian: flesso

flexus (feminine flexa, neuter flexum); first/second-declension participle

1. bent, curved, having been bent.
2. turned, having been turned around.
3. (figuratively) persuaded, having been prevailed upon.
4. (grammar) declined, conjugated, having been inflected.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “flexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flexus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• flexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.