complice

See also: cómplice

English

Etymology

From Old French

Noun

complice (plural complices)

(obsolete) An accomplice; a supporter.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,
  The lives of all your loving complices
  
  Lean on your health; the which, if you give o’er
  
  To stormy passion, must perforce decay.
- 1676, Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke; or, The Divine Mode, London, p. 11,
  Our Saviour was accused that he would Destroy the Temple. The first Martyr Steven was stoned as a Complice.
- 1759, David Hume, The History of England under the House of Tudor, London: A. Millar, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 340,
  […] a bill confirming the attainder of Somerset and his complices was also rejected by the commons, tho’ it had passed the upper house.

References

OED2

French

Adjective

complice (plural complices)

kindred, close

Noun

complice m or f (plural complices)

accomplice

Further reading

“complice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

complice m or f (plural complici)

accomplice

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