Etymograph

English

compone

Compone comes from Latin compōnō ‘to arrange, compile, compose, make up,…’, from pōnō ‘put’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to cultivate’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱey-1‘to cultivate’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱinéti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sinō1‘to put in place’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pozinō1reconstructed
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpōnō1‘put’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompōnō2as componere‘to arrange, compile, compose, make up, organize, order’
  7. Englishtodaycompone2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin compono
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English compone

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱey-Wiktionary, Latin compono‘to cultivate’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tḱinétiWiktionary, Latin componoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sinōWiktionary, Latin compono‘to put in place’reconstructed
  4. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pozinōWiktionary, Latin componoreconstructed
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpōnōWiktionary, Latin compono‘put’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcompōnōWiktionary, English componeas componere‘to arrange, compile, compose, make up, organize, order’
  7. EnglishtodaycomponeWiktionary, English compone

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- ‘to cultivate’

suppose, homeless, hamlet, bohemian, impose, homely, hame, 54 more

through Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti

prepositional, apposite, 42 more

through Proto-Italic *sinō ‘to put in place’

site, situation, posture, situate, supposition, preposition, positivism, situs, 44 more

through Proto-Italic *pozinō

opposition, proposition, exposition, deposition, disposition, imposition, suppository, presupposition, impost, 26 more

through Latin pōnō ‘put’

post, position, positive, purpose, opposite, propose, expose, opponent, dispose, repository, consolation, proponent, posit, exponent, expound, presuppose, 55 more

Today it means

verb To compose; to settle; to arrange.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “compone”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin compono. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- / compone

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