compone

See also: componé

English

Etymology

Latin componere.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpəʊn/

Verb

compone (third-person singular simple present compones, present participle componing, simple past and past participle componed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To compose; to settle; to arrange.
    • 31 March 1528, Casale, Gardiner and Foxe, letter to Wolsey
      a good pretence for componing peace

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for compone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Italian

Verb

compone

  1. third-person singular present indicative of comporre

Latin

Verb

compōne

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of componō

Spanish

Verb

compone

  1. third-person singular present indicative of componer
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