compost – French noun declension

Noun: compost
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	compost
Plural m	composts

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like compost

trichogramme, wintergreen, urinoir, contrespionnage, aréomètre, palefroi, whiskey, whippin, tee-shirt, hypocycloïde, surrisque, lanternon, dissentiment, phonogramme, phonographe, trioxygène, fétichisme, synode, synthé, modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

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. See: Latin Nouns 'compostus'.

Verbs referencing "compost"

Romanian Nouns compost, Spanish Nouns compost, Finnish Nouns komposti, German Nouns Kompost, Danish Nouns kompost, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kompost, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kompost, Polish Nouns kompost.

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