compose

vt. 构成；写作；使平静；排…的版

vi. 组成；作曲；排字

中文词源

compose 组成

com-, 强调。-pos, 放置，词源同opponent, position. 即放在一起的。

compose: compose: [15] Etymologically, compose means simply ‘put together’; it comes, via Old French composer, from compos-, the perfect stem of Latin compōnere, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and pōnere ‘place, put’, source of English position. Amongst its many descendants and derivatives are compound, component [17] (from the Latin present participle compōnent-), composite [16] (from the Latin past participle compositus), and compost [14] (which originally meant ‘stewed fruit’, like the later-borrowed compote [17]).
=> component, composite, compost, compote, compound, position
compose (v.): c. 1400, compousen, from Old French composer "put together, arrange, write" a work (12c.), from com- "with" (see com-) + poser "to place," from Late Latin pausare "to cease, lay down" (see pause (n.)). Meaning influenced in Old French by componere (see composite; also see pose (v.)). Musical sense is from 1590s. Related: Composed; composing.

1. com- "together" + pos- + -e.2. 含义："put together, arrange, write" a work.3. com- "intensive prefix" + pos- (paus-) + -e.

1. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.: 他们必须每人作一首严格押头韵的诗。

2. Protein molecules compose all the complex working parts of living cells.: 活细胞中所有复杂的运行成分都由蛋白质分子构成。

3. Most software programs allow you to compose emails offline.: 大部分软件程序允许用户在脱机状态下写电子邮件。