complicate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmplɪkət/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M P L AH0 K EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in the early 17th century; borrowed from Latin complicātus, perfect passive participle of complicō (“to fold together, fold up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“with, together with, in the company of, in connection with, along with, together, and”) + plicō (“to fold, wind, coil”); see plaid, and compare complex. See also Middle English complicate (“involved”).

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَعَقَّدَ (taʕaqqada) — to combine intricately
• Arabic: عَقَّدَ (ʕaqqada) — to combine intricately
• Armenian: բարդացնել (bardacʻnel) — to combine intricately
• Asturian: complicar — to combine intricately
• Bulgarian: усложня́вам (usložnjávam) — to combine intricately
• Catalan: complicar — to combine intricately
• Chinese Mandarin: 弄複雜 /弄复杂 (nòng fùzá) — to combine intricately
• Chinese Mandarin: 複雜化 /复杂化 (fùzáhuà) — to combine intricately
• Czech: komplikovat — to combine intricately
• Danish: komplicere — to combine intricately
• Dutch: compliceren — to combine intricately
• Esperanto: kompliki — to combine intricately
• French: compliquer — to combine intricately
• Georgian: გაართულებს (gaartulebs) — to combine intricately
• German: komplizieren — to combine intricately
• Hebrew: סיבך (sibékh) — to combine intricately
• Hungarian: bonyolít — to combine intricately
• Hungarian: komplikál — to combine intricately
• Interlingua: complicar — to combine intricately
• Italian: complicare — to combine intricately
• Japanese: 複雑にする (fukuzatsu ni suru) — to combine intricately
• Latvian: komplicēt — to combine intricately
• Latvian: sarežģīt — to combine intricately
• Norwegian Bokmål: komplisere — to combine intricately
• Polish: komplikować — to combine intricately
• Polish: skomplikować — to combine intricately
• Portuguese: complicar — to combine intricately
• Romanian: complica — to combine intricately
• Russian: усложня́ть (usložnjátʹ) — to combine intricately
• Russian: усложни́ть (usložnítʹ) — to combine intricately
• Russian: осложня́ть (osložnjátʹ) — to combine intricately
• Russian: осложни́ть (osložnítʹ) — to combine intricately
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir tro-chèile — to combine intricately
• Spanish: complicar — to combine intricately
• Spanish: complejizar — to combine intricately
• Swedish: komplicera — to combine intricately
• Ukrainian: ускла́днювати (uskládnjuvaty) — to combine intricately
• Ukrainian: ускладни́ти (uskladnýty) — to combine intricately
• Vietnamese: làm phức tạp — to combine intricately