discompose
Meaningto put out of order
Common meaning: to unsettle or fluster
- disapart, away; not
- comwith, together
- posto put down, set in placeLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1396 · scan
‘apart, away’ + ‘with, together’ + ‘to put down, set in place’ → discompose
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin pōnō ‘to put down, set in place’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry pōnō, p. 1396 · dictionary scan
Roots
- pōnō, posuī, positum Latin “to put down, set in place”
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