compost
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Northern French compost (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land" also "condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed, compouspanind”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, and composite.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
compost (countable and uncountable, plural composts)
- The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer
- Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.
- Shakespeare
- And do not spread the compost on the weeds / To make them ranker.
-
2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1], page G7:
- [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
- (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
- Hammond
- A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.
- Hammond
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
compost (third-person singular simple present composts, present participle composting, simple past and past participle composted)
- To produce compost, let organic matter decay into fertilizer
- If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil.
Translations[edit]
|
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Occitan, from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus.
Adjective[edit]
compost (feminine composta, masculine plural composts or compostos, feminine plural compostes)
- compound
-
ull compost
- compound eye
-
Etymology 2[edit]
From the above, possibly influenced by English compost.
Noun[edit]
compost m (plural composts or compostos)
Verb[edit]
compost
- past participle of compondre
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English compost.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
compost m, n (uncountable)
- compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter
Derived terms[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a substantivation and specialization of old Norman compost, from (Old Northern French), Old French composte (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land; condiment”), from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus (“composed, compound”), from componere. Modern French spelling influenced by English (compare the modern Norman spelling compôt, which is the expected form). Doublet of compote and composite.
Noun[edit]
compost m (plural composts)
- compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “compost” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English compost. Doublet of composto.
Noun[edit]
compost m (invariable)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus, from compōnō (“I arrange, compile, compose, make up”).
Adjective[edit]
compost m (oblique and nominative feminine singular composte)
- composed (of)
Descendants[edit]
- English terms borrowed from Old Northern French
- English terms derived from Old Northern French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English verbs
- en:Agriculture
- Catalan terms inherited from Old Occitan
- Catalan terms derived from Old Occitan
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan terms with usage examples
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan verb forms
- Catalan past participles
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- French terms derived from Old Northern French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French doublets
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian doublets
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives