TWINE Copy link • TWINEv. Transitively, circumvolvere: circumplicare. Intransitively, se circumvolvere (e.g., arboribus): circumvolvi: circumplecti. To train vines so that they may twine round the props, vites erigere, ut claviculis suis adminicula complectantur or apprehendant (after Cic., N.D., 2, 27, 120): the vine twines itself about everything, vitis claviculis suis quasi manibus, quicquid est nacta, complectitur.