convexus

From convehō (“carry”). Compare dēvexus (“sloping down”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈu̯ek.sus/, [kɔnˈu̯ɛks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈvek.sus/, [koɱˈvɛksus]

convexus (feminine convexa, neuter convexum); first/second-declension adjective

1. vaulted, arched, rounded
2. convex or concave (depending on context)
3. inclined (sloping downwards)

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• dēvexus
• subvexus

• “convexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “convexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• convexus 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)
• convexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette