accomplice的词源
英文词源
- 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.
中文词源
发音释义：[ə'kʌmplɪs; ə'kɒm-] n. 同谋者，[法] 共犯
结构分析：accomplice = ac（无意义前缀）+ complice（同谋者）；complice = com（共同）+plice（结合）→结合到一起→同谋者。
词源解释：plice ←拉丁语plicem←拉丁语plicare（结合）
同源词：complicity（共谋），complex（复杂的），complicate（交织、使复杂化）
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：accomplice 词源，accomplice 含义。
前缀ac-同ad-. 词根ply, 卷进，见apply,申请（成为一份子）。-ice, 名词后缀，此处字母y变为i.
