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From Latin complectī (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). See complex.

• Hyphenation: com‧plect

complect (third-person singular simple present complects, present participle complecting, simple past and past participle complected)

1. (archaic, transitive) To join by weaving.
2. (archaic, transitive) To embrace.

• (archaic: to join by weaving): interweave, entwine, interconnect, interlink

• complected (woven together, interwoven)

• intercommunicate
• join
• tangle

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “complect”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

complect

1. nonstandard form of complet

complect m or n (feminine singular complectă, masculine plural complecți, feminine/neuter plural complecte)

1. nonstandard form of complet