compas – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of compas

Noun: compas
Sg.compas
Pl.compasses

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • ⁊ in þe cumpas of þe ſeete.· weren foure ⁊ twentı ſmale ſeetıs ⁊ abouen þe troones foure ⁊ twentı eldere men ſıttynge. hılıd aboute wıþ whıte cloþıs.· ⁊ in þe heedıs of hem golden coꝛouns (And around the perimeter of the seat there were twenty-four small seats, and on those seats twenty-four elders sat, wearing white clothing and having golden crowns on their heads.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:4, folio 118, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010]

Nouns inflected like compas

stiffenes, las, trespas, compas, cipres, glas, ches,

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus.

Verbs referencing "compas"

English Nouns compass.

Translations