kompás

See also: kompas

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”)

Noun

kompás m (genitive singular kompáss, nominative plural kompásar)

  1. compass
    Synonym: áttaviti

Declension

Further reading

  • kompás in Icelandic dictionaries at islex.is
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