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Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with”) + petō (“I seek”).
Pronunciation
Noun
compitum n (genitive compitī); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) crossroads
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “compitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Hercules at the cross-roads, between virtue and vice: Hercules in trivio, in bivio, in compitis