complot
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɒt
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈkɒmˌplɒt/
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- (verb) IPA(key): /kəmˈplɒt/
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Noun
editcomplot (plural complots)
- (archaic) A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
- c. 1582-1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, Act 3, Scene 2:
- LOR. Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast
Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch,
Vpon precise commandement from the king
Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano
This night shall murder haples Serberine.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- AARON: […] / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,
Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,
Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd: / […]
- 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop[1], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 164:
- The young advertising agent stood against the fence in silent horror, his heart bumping heavily. His hands were clammy, his feet seemed to have grown larger and taken root. What damnable complot was this?
Verb
editcomplot (third-person singular simple present complots, present participle complotting, simple past and past participle complotted)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To plot together; conspire.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 1]:
- BOLINGBROKE. […] Besides, I say and will in battle prove,
Or here, or elsewhere to the furthest verge
That ever was survey'd by English eye,
That all the treasons for these eighteen years
Complotted and contrived in this land,
Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
Derived terms
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editCatalan
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editcomplot m (plural complots)
- conspiracy
- Synonym: conxorxa
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “complot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “complot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “complot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “complot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
editAlternative forms
edit- komplot (before 1996)
Etymology
editFrom French complot (“crowd-, plot”), from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcomplot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcomplot m (plural complots)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “complot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editcomplot m (plural complots)
Descendants
editRomanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editcomplot n (plural comploturi)
Related terms
edit- complota
- complotare
- complotat (past participle of "complota")
- complotist
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French complot (“plot, conspiracy”), from Middle French complot.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcomplot m (plural complots)
- (colloquial) plot, conspiracy
- Synonym: conspiración
Further reading
edit- “complot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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