英:['kɒmplɪs]
美:['kɒmplɪs]
英:['kɒmplɪs]
美:['kɒmplɪs]
noun
associate
Middle English, "associate, accomplice," borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin complic-, complex "fellow-participant, partner, accomplice (in wrongdoing)," probably noun derivative of complicāre "to fold together, fold up, bundle, connect (to), cause to join" (going back to Latin, "to fold together"), after derivatives with the multiplicative suffixal element -plex, as in duplex "folded double, duplex >entry 1" — more at complicate >entry 2
The first known use of complice was in the 15th century
1 Former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, along with alleged complices Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor and Jeremy Pauley.
2 同谋者