different between complot vs league

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Etymology 1

From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. A group or association of cooperating members.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

     And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.

2. (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.

3. (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league

4. (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.

5. A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).

Derived terms

Related terms

• ally
• alliance

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
• ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)

Translations

Verb

league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)

1. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).

Noun

league (plural leagues)

1. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
   • 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47

     Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
2. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Middle English Dictionary, lege