# complot
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɒt
* (noun) IPA: /ˈkɒmˌplɒt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (verb) IPA: /kəmˈplɒt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

complot (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, 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

complot (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

* complotment
* complotter

#### Related terms

* plot

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French complot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kumˈplɔt]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [komˈplɔt]
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Noun

complot m (plural complots)
* conspiracy
    Synonym: conxorxa

#### Derived terms

* complotar

### Further reading

* “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
### Alternative forms

* komplot (before 1996)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)
* conspiracy

#### Synonyms

* samenzwering

#### Derived terms

* complotdenker
* complottheoreticus
* complottheorie

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: komplot
* → Indonesian: komplot
* → Papiamentu: kòmplòt

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.plo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

complot m (plural complots)
* plot; conspiracy

#### Derived terms

* comploter
* théorie du complot

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: complot
* → Danish: komplot
* → Dutch: complot, komplot (before 1996)
** Negerhollands: komplot
** → Indonesian: komplot
** → Papiamentu: kòmplòt
* → Galician: complot
* → German: Komplott
* → Italian: complotto
* → Portuguese: complô
* → Romanian: complot
* → Spanish: complot
* → Turkish: komplo

### Further reading

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

## Middle French
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

complot m (plural complots)
* plot; conspiracy; complot

#### Descendants

* French: complot
** → Catalan: complot
** → Danish: komplot
** → Dutch: complot, komplot (before 1996)
*** Negerhollands: komplot
*** → Indonesian: komplot
*** → Papiamentu: kòmplòt
** → Galician: complot
** → German: Komplott
** → Italian: complotto
** → Portuguese: complô
** → Romanian: complot
** → Spanish: complot
** → Turkish: komplo
* → English: complot

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French complot.

### Noun

complot n (plural comploturi)
* complot, conspiracy

#### Related terms

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /komˈplot/ [kõmˈplot̪]
* Rhymes: -ot
* Syllabification: com‧plot

### Noun

complot m (plural complots)
* (colloquial) plot, conspiracy
    Synonym: conspiración

### Further reading

* “complot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014