composure
English
/kəmˈpoʊʒɚ/, /kəmˈpəʊʒə/
noun
Definitions
- Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
- (obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
- (obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
- (obsolete) Frame; make; temperament.
- (obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
Etymology
Suffix from English compose root from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- (settle, bed, lie down, lie dow, dwell, dear, cozy, familiar).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*tḱey-
Gloss
settle, bed, lie down, lie dow, dwell, dear, cozy, familiar
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
床
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cocompose English
- composability English
- composable English
- compose English
- composer English
- composest English
- composeth English
- composograph English
- decompose English
- discompose English
- discomposure English
- miscompose English
- noncomposure English
- photocompose English
- precompose English
- recompose English
- appono Latin
- componere Latin
- compono Latin
- depono Latin
- depositus Latin
- oppono Latin
- oppōnēns Latin
- ponent- Latin
- positio Latin
- positus Latin
- propono Latin
- prōpōnēns Latin
- prōpōnō, prōpōnēre, propono Latin
- posta Italian
- disposer French
- κτίζω Ancient Greek
- κτίλος Ancient Greek
- κτίσις Ancient Greek
- κτίσμα Ancient Greek
- ἐϋκτίμενος Ancient Greek
- *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European
- *tḱey-, *tḱéytrom Proto-Indo-European
- *tḱi-né-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *tḱóymos Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European
- *haimaz Proto-Germanic
- composer Old French
- saime Latvian
- *ćšáytram Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *pozinō Proto-Italic
- ܫܝܢܐ Classical Syriac
- 𐀑𐀴𐀕𐀙 Mycenaean Greek