Etymograph

English

incomposite

Incomposite comes from Latin incompositus ‘disorderly, disorganized’, and goes back to compositus ‘ordered, arranged, regular, matching’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompositus‘ordered, arranged, regular, matching’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincompositus‘disorderly, disorganized’
  3. Englishtodayincomposite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompositus‘ordered, arranged, regular, matching’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEincompositus‘disorderly, disorganized’
  3. Englishtodayincomposite

Equivalent to in- + composite

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin compōnō ‘put together’

Latin compositus ‘ordered, arranged, regular, matching’

Middle French composite

English composite

Linked words

through Latin compositus ‘ordered, arranged, regular, matching’

compost, 1 more

Today it means

adj Not composite; simple or single.

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