The story
- Latin · derived fromcompōnere“put together, arrange, compile”
- Old French · derived fromcompondre
- French · derived fromcomponé
- English todaycompony
From French componé, from Old French compondre, from Latin compōnere (“put together, arrange, compile”). Cognate with English compose, compound.
Words from the same roots
Latincompōnere all →
composecompone
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.