different between complot vs confederate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• (noun) IPA^(key): /?k?m?pl?t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?t/

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: / […]

   • 1918, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, Grosset & Dunlap 1919, 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)

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French complot.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pl?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. conspiracy

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.
• “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

• (before 1996) komplot

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?t/
• Hyphenation: com?plot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

complot n (plural complotten, diminutive complotje n)

1. conspiracy

Synonyms

• samenzwering

Derived terms

• complotdenker
• complottheoreticus
• complottheorie

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: komplot

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.plo/

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy

Derived terms

• comploter
• théorie du complot

Descendants

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. plot; conspiracy; complot

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

complot n (plural comploturi)

1. complot, conspiracy

Related terms

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?plot/, [kõm?plot?]

Noun

complot m (plural complots)

1. (colloquial) plot, conspiracy

English

Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d???t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d??e?t/

Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

Translations

Adjective

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.

Quotations

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12

  Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,

  Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

Translations

Verb

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.

Italian

Adjective

confederate

1. feminine plural of confederato

Noun

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
3. feminine plural of confederato