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.
例文
1. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.
彼らは一人一人、厳格に韻を押せる詩を作らなければならない。
2.Protein molecules compose all the complex working parts of living cells.
生細胞中の複雑な運転成分はすべてタンパク質分子で構成されている。
3.Most software programs allow you to compose emails offline.
ほとんどのソフトウェアプログラムは、オフライン状態で電子メールを書くことができます。
4.Cale also uses electronic keyboards to compose .