comptus

Latin

Perfect passive participle of cōmō (“to arrange, adorn, dress”).

cōmptus (feminine cōmpta, neuter cōmptum); first/second-declension participle

brought together, formed, framed, constructed, arranged, having been arranged
(usually of hair) taken care of, cared for; combed, dressed, braided; having been dressed
(in general) adorned, decked, dressed, ornamented, having been adorned

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	cōmptus	cōmpta	cōmptum	cōmptī	cōmptae	cōmpta
genitive	cōmptī	cōmptae	cōmptī	cōmptōrum	cōmptārum	cōmptōrum
dative	cōmptō	cōmptae	cōmptō	cōmptīs
accusative	cōmptum	cōmptam	cōmptum	cōmptōs	cōmptās	cōmpta
ablative	cōmptō	cōmptā	cōmptō	cōmptīs
vocative	cōmpte	cōmpta	cōmptum	cōmptī	cōmptae	cōmpta

Through Vulgar Latin verb *comptiāre:

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷos

Proto-Italic *kʷoi

Latin quei

Latin quī

Latin quō

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *medos

Latin modus

Latin modō

Latin quōmodo

Latin cōmō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cōmptus

From cōmō (“to arrange, adorn, dress”) + -tus (forms action nouns).

cōmptus m (genitive cōmptūs); fourth declension

Fourth-declension noun.

“comptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“comptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“comptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- well-ordered, well-brushed hair: capilli compti, compositi (opp. horridi)