complot

English

Etymology

From Middle French complot (“crowd, plot”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒt
• (noun) IPA: /ˈkɒmˌplɒt/
• (verb) IPA: /kəmˈplɒt/

Noun

complot (plural complots)

1. a plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
   • circa 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.

   • circa 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 5, Scene 1:

     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: / […]

Verb

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

1. (archaic) To plot.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, 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

• complotment
• complotter

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Standard) IPA: /kumˈpɫɔt/, X-SAMPA: /kum"p5Ot/
• (Valencian) IPA: /komˈpɫɔt/, X-SAMPA: /kom"p5Ot/

Etymology

From English complot.

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. complot

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Dutch

Noun

complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje)

1. conspiracy

Synonyms

• samenzwering

Derived terms

• complottheorie

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French

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot, conspiracy

Related terms

• comploter

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Romanian

Noun

complot n (plural comploturi)

1. complot
2. plot, conspiracy

Related terms

• complota
• complotare
• complotat (past participle of "complota")
• complotist

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Spanish

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. (colloquial) plot, conspiracy