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English
Noun
compages
- plural of compage
Latin
Etymology
From con- + pangō + -es.
Pronunciation
Noun
compāgēs f (genitive compāgis); third declension
- binding, fastening (act)
- bond, tie
- joint
- structure, framework
- (figuratively) feature
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- “compages”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compages”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compages in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- compages in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.