complot

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒt
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmˌplɒt/
• IPA^(key): /kəmˈplɒt/

Noun

complot (plural complots)

1. (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 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 complott, present participle ing, simple past and past participle comploted)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To plot together; conspire.
   • 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

Related terms

• plot

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English complot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kumˈplɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [komˈplɔt]

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. conspiracy

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) komplot

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔmˈplɔt/

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• Hyphenation: com‧plot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)

1. conspiracy

Synonyms

• samenzwering

Derived terms

• complottheorie

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.plo/

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy

Related terms

• comploter

Descendants

• → German: Komplott

Further reading

• “complot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy; complot

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Romanian

Etymology

Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *palo-, *plō- (“to fold”)

Noun

complot n (plural comploturi)

1. complot, conspiracy

Related terms

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French complot (“crowd-, plot”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈplot/

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. (colloquial) plot, conspiracy