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Borrowed from Middle French complot (crowd-, plot).

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complot (plural complots)

  1. (archaic) A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy

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complot (third-person singular simple present complots, present participle complotting, simple past and past participle complotted)

  1. (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.

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Catalan

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Borrowed from French complot.

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complot m (plural complots)

  1. conspiracy
    Synonym: conxorxa

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From French complot (crowd-, plot), from Middle French complot (crowd-, plot).

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  • IPA(key): /kɔmˈplɔt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: com‧plot
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

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complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)

  1. conspiracy

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  • Negerhollands: komplot
  • Indonesian: komplot
  • Papiamentu: kòmplòt

French

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Inherited from Middle French complot (crowd-, plot).

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complot m (plural complots)

  1. plot; conspiracy

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complot m (plural complots)

  1. plot; conspiracy; complot

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Romanian

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Borrowed from French complot.

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complot n (plural comploturi)

  1. complot, conspiracy
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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French complot (plot, conspiracy), from Middle French complot.

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  • IPA(key): /komˈplot/ [kõmˈplot̪]
  • Rhymes: -ot
  • Syllabification: com‧plot

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complot m (plural complots)

  1. (colloquial) plot, conspiracy
    Synonym: conspiración

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