compás

• compaso

From Old French compas, in substitution of From Old Galician-Portuguese compasso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), both from Medieval Latin compassus.

• IPA^(key): /komˈpas/

compás m (plural compases)

1. compass
2. pair of compasses

• acompasar
• paso

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “compasso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “compas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “compás”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “compás”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “compás”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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compás m (genitive singular compáis, nominative plural compáis)

1. compass
   1. (pair of) compasses
   2. limit, circumference

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “compás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Apparently from Old French compas, perhaps from Medieval Latin compassus (“circle, circuit”), or the medieval Latin term is derived from Old French. In either case, deverbal from Vulgar Latin *compassāre (“to pace off”), from com- + *passāre (“to step”), from Latin passus (“step”), originally the perfect passive participle of pandō (“to stretch out”).

• IPA^(key): /komˈpas/ [kõmˈpas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: com‧pás

compás m (plural compases)

1. pair of compasses (tool used to draw circles)
2. rhythm
3. (music) beat
4. (music) bar
5. (music) time, time signature
6. (fencing) beat

• Sense of "device used to determine the cardinal directions" is obsolete, or almost.

• “compás”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN