kompás

See also: kompas

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”).

Noun

kompás m (genitive singular kompáss, nominative plural kompásar)

1. compass

   Synonym: áttaviti

Declension

Declension of kompás (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kompás	kompásinn	kompásar	kompásarnir
accusative	kompás	kompásinn	kompása	kompásana
dative	kompás	kompásnum	kompásum	kompásunum
genitive	kompáss	kompássins	kompása	kompásanna

Further reading

• “kompás” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)