compost

Borrowed from Old Northern French compost (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land" also "condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed, compouspanind”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, and composite.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpɒst/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpoʊst/
• Hyphenation: com‧post

compost (countable and uncountable, plural composts)

1. The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer.

   Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.

   • Shakespeare

     And do not spread the compost on the weeds / To make them ranker.

   • 2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎, page G7:

     [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.

2. (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
   • Hammond

     A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.

• composter
• compost heap

compost (third-person singular simple present composts, present participle composting, simple past and past participle composted)

1. To produce compost, let organic matter decay into fertilizer.

   If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil.

• mulch (sometimes used interchangeably with compost)
• humus

• compots

From Old Occitan, from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus.

compost (feminine composta, masculine plural composts or compostos, feminine plural compostes)

1. compound

   ull compost

   compound eye

compost

1. past participle of compondre

From the above, possibly influenced by English compost.

compost m (plural composts or compostos)

1. compost

• compostar

• “compost” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from English compost.

• IPA^(key): /kɔmˈpɔst/

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• Hyphenation: com‧post
• Rhymes: -ɔst

compost m or n (uncountable)

1. compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter

• composteren
• compostering
• composthoop

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.

compost m (plural composts)

1. compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter

• compostage
• composter

• composer

• “compost” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English compost. Doublet of composto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkompost/
• Hyphenation: còm‧post

compost m (invariable)

1. compost

From Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus, from compōnō (“I arrange, compile, compose, make up”).

compost m (oblique and nominative feminine singular composte)

1. composed (of)

• English: compost
• Norman: compôt
• French: compost, compote

compost m (plural composts)

1. compost

   Synonym: composta

• compostar

• “compost” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• compost on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es