compas

compas (uncountable)

1. (music) A form of string music from Haiti

• campos, mocaps, scampo

Inherited from Old French compas, from Latin com- + passus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pa/, /kɔ̃.pɑ/

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compas m (plural compas)

1. pair of compasses
2. (nautical, aviation) magnetic compass
3. (music) a genre of modern Haitian music descended from the traditional style méringue

• avoir le compas dans l’œil

• → Portuguese: compasso
• → Burmese: ကွန်ပါ (kwanpa)
• → Romanian: compas

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

• compace, compase, compass, compasse, cumpas, cumpasse

Borrowed from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumpas/, /kumˈpas/, /kumˈpaːs/

compas (plural compasses)

1. Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of skill or sleight-of hand.
2. A scheme or plan, especially one formulated in secrecy or with malicious intent.
3. A circular shape (i.e. a circle, curve or sphere) or a region bounded by one.
4. The boundary or totality of the margins or edges of a region or zone; that which surrounds.
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:4, page 118v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ in þe cumpas of þe ſeete.· weren foure ⁊ twentı ſmale ſeetıs ⁊ abouen þe troones foure ⁊ twentı eldere men ſıttynge. hılıd aboute wıþ whıte cloþıs.· ⁊ in þe heedıs of hem golden coꝛouns

     And around the perimeter of the seat there were twenty-four small seats, and on those seats twenty-four elders sat, wearing white clothing and having golden crowns on their heads.

5. An area, region or zone; space or coverage with fixed or demarcated boundaries.
6. The size, extent, or magnitude of something (usually in area or dimension)
7. A compass (device or tool for drawing or demarcating a circle)
8. (rare) The appearance, visage or design of a piece of craftsmanship.

• compassen
• compassement
• compassynge
• encompassen

• English: compass

• “cǒmpā̆s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-22.

compas (rare)

1. Following a circle-shaped course or perimeter.
2. Having a specified circle-shaped course or perimeter.

• English: compass (obsolete as an adverb)

• “cǒmpā̆s, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-22.

• coumpas (continental Normandy)
• kõpaa (Sark)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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compas m (plural compas)

1. (Jersey) compass, dividers

Borrowed from French compas.

compas n (plural compasuri)

1. pair of compasses

compas m pl

1. plural of compa