compositus

• compostus (by syncope)

Perfect passive participle of compōnō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔmˈpɔ.sɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [komˈpɔː.s̬i.tus]

compositus (feminine composita, neuter compositum, comparative compositior); first/second-declension adjective

1. ordered, arranged, regular, matching
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.16.24:

     Favus mellis verba composita: dulcēdō animae, et sānitās ossuum.

     Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

2. composed, compound
3. calm, sedate
4. (mathematics) composite
   • Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 3.5.7:

     Conpositi sunt, qui non solum unitate metiuntur, sed etiam alieno numero procreantur, ut novem, XXI, XV et XXV. Dicimus enim ter terni, et septies terni, ter quini, et quinquies quini.

     Composites are numbers not only measured out by ones, but also produced by other numbers, like nine, 21, 15, and 25. For indeed these are three times three, seven times three, three times five, and five times five.

First/second-declension adjective.

• compositē
• compositum
• ex compositō

• “compositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “compositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “compositus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at the time agreed on: ad horam compositam
    
  • (ambiguous) well-ordered, well-brushed hair: capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi)
    
  • (ambiguous) an elaborate speech: oratio composita
    
  • (ambiguous) well-arranged words: verba composita