complot

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

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

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: / […]

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

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.

• complotment
• complotter

• plot

Borrowed from English complot.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /komˈplɔt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kumˈplɔt/

complot m (plural complots)

1. conspiracy

• (before 1996) komplot

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔmˈplɔt/

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• Hyphenation: com‧plot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)

1. conspiracy

• samenzwering

• complottheorie

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.plo/

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy

• comploter

• → German: Komplott

• “complot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy; complot

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *palo-, *plō- (“to fold”)

complot n (plural comploturi)

1. complot, conspiracy

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

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

• IPA^(key): /komˈplot/

complot m (plural complots)

1. (colloquial) plot, conspiracy