compte

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin computus. Compare French compte.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkom.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkom.te]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: comte, compta

compte m (plural comptes)

1. count (act of counting or tallying something)
2. count (a quantity counted)
3. care (close attention)

   Synonyms: cura, atenció

   caldrà anar amb compte ― you have to be careful

4. (finance, computing) account

   compte de usuari ― user account

5. bill, invoice

• comptar

compte

1. watch out!, be careful!

• “compte”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Middle French compte, from Old French conte (with ⟨mp⟩ added back to reflect Latin computus). Cf. also the form conte.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃t/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: comptent, comptes, comte, comtes, conte, content, contes

compte m (plural comptes)

1. account (bank or user account)
2. count (the action of counting)

compte

1. inflection of compter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “compte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cōmpte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōmptus

• “compte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• compte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

compte

1. alternative form of counte (“computation”)

From Old French conte, with the mp added back to reflect the Latin computus.

compte m (plural comptes)

1. account (financial)
2. tale; story

From Old French comte, with the p added under the influence of etymology 1. No p in the Latin etymon comes, comitem.

compte m (plural comptes)

1. alternative form of conte (nobleman)

Borrowed from French compte, from Latin computus.

compte m (plural comptes)

1. (Jersey) account
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 519:

     I' n'en prend ni compte ni taille.

     He takes no account nor tally.