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Latin1: complicabilis 2: circumplico 3: plicatilis 4: bijugis 5: conglomero
Greek1: diptuchizô 2: epanadiplôma 3: summêrusis 4: summêruomai 5: hupodiploô
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plico (plicâvi, plicui, acc. to Prisc. p. 680 P.), plicâtum and plicitum, âre, v. a. [root plic-; Gr. plekô; v. plecto], to fold, to lay or wind together, to fold up, double up (poet. and in post-class. prose; cf.: complico, plecto, necto, flecto), Lucr. 4, 828: quaedam plicata, id. 6, 1086: chartam, Mart. 4, 83, 7: seque in sua membra plicantem (anguem), winding or coiling himself up, Verg. A. 5.279; Gell. 17, 9, 9: decas plena his quattuor numeris gradatim plicatis integratur, folded together, i. e. added, Mart. Cap. 7, § 734: ostiola plicabantur, Vulg. Ezech. 41, 24: et cum plicuisset librum, id. Luc. 4, 20.