compte

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin computus. Compare French compte.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkom.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkom.te]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: comte, compta

compte m (plural comptes)

1. count (act of counting or tallying something)
2. count (a quantity counted)
3. care (close attention)

   Synonyms: cura, atenció

   caldrà anar amb compte ― you have to be careful

4. (finance, computing) account

   compte de usuari ― user account

5. bill, invoice

• comptar

compte

1. watch out!, be careful!

• “compte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Middle French compte, from Old French conte (with ⟨mp⟩ added back to reflect Latin computus). Cf. also the form conte.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃t/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: comptent, comptes, comte, comtes, conte, content, contes

compte m (plural comptes)

1. account (bank or user account)
2. count (the action of counting)

compte

1. inflection of compter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “compte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cōmpte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōmptus

• “compte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• compte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

compte

1. Alternative form of counte (“computation”)

From Old French conte, with the mp added back to reflect the Latin computus.

compte m (plural comptes)

1. account (financial)
2. tale; story

From Old French comte, with the p added under the influence of etymology 1. No p in the Latin etymon comes, comitem.

compte m (plural comptes)

1. Alternative form of conte (nobleman)

Borrowed from French compte, from Latin computus.

compte m (plural comptes)

1. (Jersey) account
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 519:

     I' n'en prend ni compte ni taille.

     He takes no account nor tally.