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Latin
Etymology
From con- + positiō. In at least some senses, a calque of Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis).
Pronunciation
Noun
compositiō f (genitive compositiōnis); third declension
- arrangement, combination
- union
- agreement, pact
- mixture (medicine)
- composition (music, prose)
- (Medieval Latin) composure (temperament)
- (Medieval Latin) money paid as amends or to reach a settlement
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “compositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compositio 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)
- compositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
- compositio in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “compositio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- compositio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016