compositio

Latin

Alternative forms

• conpositiō

Etymology

From con- +‎ positiō. In at least some senses, a calque of Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kom.poˈsi.ti.oː/, [kɔmpɔˈs̠ɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom.poˈsit.t͡si.o/, [kompoˈs̬it̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

compositiō f (genitive compositiōnis); third declension

1. arrangement, combination
2. union
3. agreement, pact
4. mixture (medicine)
5. composition (music, prose)
6. (Medieval Latin) composure (temperament)
7. (Medieval Latin) money paid as amends or to reach a settlement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compositiō	compositiōnēs
genitive	compositiōnis	compositiōnum
dative	compositiōnī	compositiōnibus
accusative	compositiōnem	compositiōnēs
ablative	compositiōne	compositiōnibus
vocative	compositiō	compositiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: composició
• Friulian: composizion
• Galician: composición
• German: Komposition
• Italian: composizione
• Old French: composicion
  • French: composition
    • → Korean: 콩포지숑 (kongpojisyong) (rare)
    • → Turkish: kompozisyon
  • → Middle English: composicioun
    • English: composition
      • → Korean: 컴포지션 (keompojisyeon)
• Piedmontese: composission
• Portuguese: composição
• Romanian: compoziție
• Russian: компози́ция (kompozícija)
• Spanish: composición

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^[1], 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^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016