compter

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmptə/

compter (plural compters)

1. (obsolete) A counter (token used for keeping count).
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:

     Let me see: every 'leven wether tods, every tod yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred shorn, what comes the wool to? […] I cannot do't without compters.

2. (historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter.
   • 2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Oxford University Press, page 284:

     Each sheriff had his own compter, which were both prisons and offices, administered by the respective secondaries.

From Middle French compter, respelling of Old French conter to reflect the etymology Latin computāre, present active infinitive of computō. Doublet of conter and computer.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.te/

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• Homophone: conter

compter

1. (transitive, intransitive) to count
2. (transitive) to reckon, allow

   Pour se rendre jusque là, il faut compter deux bonnes heures.

   To get there, it takes two good hours.

3. (transitive) to include

   Je ne l'ai pas comptée dans le calcul.

   I did not include it in the calculation.

4. (catenative) to intend, plan

   Tu comptes partir à quelle heure ?

   At what time do you intend to leave?

• compter sur
• compteur
• comptoir

• compte
• conter

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

From Old French conter, respelled to reflect Latin computō, computāre.

compter

1. to recount; to tell

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• compte

• French: compter, conter (separate verbs in modern French)