The story
- Latin · derived fromimplicare“to infold, involve”
- Old French · derived fromemplier
- Middle English · inherited fromimplien
- English todayimply
From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
Words from the same roots
Latinimplicare all →
employ
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.