/kɔ̃.pli.ke/
Translation
complicated, complex
Word origin
Past participle of compliquer ('to complicate'), from Latin complicare ('to fold together'), from com- ('together') plus plicare ('to fold'). The same root gives English 'complicate' and 'complex'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- complicare
- English cognates
- complicate, complex
Grammar
Examples
Cette .
This situation is really too complicated.
.
He has a complicated relationship with his brother.
' .
Do not make things more complicated than they are.
C' laquelle .
It is a complicated question that I do not know how to answer.
.
The rules of this game are rather complicated.
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