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Complicate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to make something more difficult, complex, or confusing
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Stage 1 of 2
complicare
Latin · ancient
"to fold together"
to fold together thoroughly, from com- (together) and plicare (to fold)
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Stage 2 of 2
complicate
English · 1600s
"to make something more difficult or complex"
settled as the English word for making something more difficult or complex
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