compás

Meaning

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

Concepts

compass

🧭

pair of compasses

bar

compasses

measure

time

⌚

beat

calliper

rhythm

Synonyms

brújula

🧭

Translations

compas

Zirkel

compasso

compasso

🧭

Kompass

🧭

passer

🧭

compàs

διαβήτης

mesure

boussole

🧭

πυξίδα

bussola

🧭

brúixola

🧭

kompas

🧭

Hyphenated as

com‧pás

Pronounced as (IPA)

/komˈpas/

Etymology

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”).