accomplice
pronunciation
How to pronounce accomplice in British English:
UK [əˈkʌmplɪs]
How to pronounce accomplice in American English:
US [əˈkɑːmplɪs]
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- Noun:
- a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
Word Origin
- accomplice
- accomplice: [15] This word was borrowed into English (from French) as complice (and complice stayed in common usage until late in the 19th century). It comes from Latin complex, which is related to English complicated, and originally meant simply ‘an associate’, without any pejorative associations. The form accomplice first appears on the scene in the late 15th century (the first record of it is in William Caxton’s Charles the Great), and it probably arose through a misanalysis of complice preceded by the indefinite article (a complice) as acomplice. It may also have been influenced by accomplish or accompany.=> complicated
- accomplice (n.)
- 1580s (earlier complice, late 15c.), from Old French complice "a confederate," from Late Latin complicem (nominative complex) "partner, confederate," from Latin complicare "fold together" (see complicate). With parasitic a- on model of accomplish, etc., or perhaps by assimilation of indefinite article in phrase a complice.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Police are still searching for cannon 's alleged accomplice .
- 2. Alexis tsipras said sunday he will not become what he calls an accomplice in a crime against greek society .
- 3. A baltimore man is accused of using a cell phone from prison to order an accomplice to murder a witness .
- 4. It had not been much of a heist ; he said his accomplice " got some change " but he got nothing .
- 5. On their way back to nigel 's house , jane was an accomplice in an episode of shoplifting-which fortunately went undetected , or at least unreported .