compeçamiento
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Old Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From compeçar (“to begin”) + -miento.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
compeçamiento m (usually uncountable)
- beginning
- Synonym: començament
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 44v:
- Fue al cõpeçamiento q̃ eſtidieron ẏ. enõ temierõ al criador. etrametio el criador leones. ematarõ los.
- It was at the beginning that they dwelt there that they did not fear the Creator, and the Creator sent [among them] lions, and they killed them.