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compos
compos
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.pos/, [ˈkɔm.pɔs]
Adjective
compos m, f, n (genitive compotis); third declension
- having the mastery, control, or power over something (takes the genitive), as in non compos mentis, not mentally competent, sometimes shortened to non compos
- sharing (especially in the guilt of something)
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | compos | compotēs | compotia | ||
| genitive | compotis | compotium | |||
| dative | compotī | compotibus | |||
| accusative | compotem | compos | compotēs | compotia | |
| ablative | compotī | compotibus | |||
| vocative | compos | compotēs | compotia | ||
References
- compos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- compos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “compos”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be of sane mind: mentis compotem esse
- to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
- to have to pay a vow; to obtain one's wish: voti damnari, compotem fieri
- to be of sane mind: mentis compotem esse