COMPOUND Copy link • COMPOUND 1. v. to join together: componere: jungere: conjungere: copulare: (the words are found in this connexion and order), inter se jungere copulareque: or copulando adjungere. confundere aliquid cum aliqua re (also figuratively): to compound medicines, medicamenta parare (Cic.); componere (Col.); temperare (Scribonius Largus); in poculo diluere (Curt.): To compound words, duplicare verba (Liv., 27, 11, 5, faciliore ad duplicanda verba Graeco sermone): Compounded words [Vid: COMPOUND]. To compound verbs with prepositions, voces praepositionibus subjungere (Quint.). Adjust (differences, etc.), componere (controversiam, litem). To be compounded of, constare (ex): man is compounded of body and soul, homo constat ex animo et corpore. To compound a debt, *parte pecuniae soluta creditoribus satisfacere. transactionem facere, componere (Dig., to have a settlement with one’s creditors). 2. INTR. To compound for etc. Mostly by circumlocution with mihi satis est or sufficit, or abunde est or sufficit, quod: mihi abunde est, si etc.: satis habeo with accusative and infinitive; you should be glad to compound for my making no complaints about him to you, satis habeas, me nihil tecum de eo queri: “they were glad to compound for his commitment to the Tower,” *satis sibi esse dixerunt, quod in custodiam or carcerem esset conjectus. I shall be glad to compound for that reward, id modo si mercedis Datur mihi - satis mihi esse ducam (Plaut.): Bargain, pacisci cum aliquo: transigere cum aliquo. 3. adj. compositus: Compound words, verba copulata or juncta or inter se conjuncta (opposed to simplicia, Cic.): verba composita: voces compositae (Quintilian: but in Cic., verba composa = words PROP. arranged), verba duplicata. 4. s. mixtio: permixtio (as act and thing): mixtura (the kind and nature of the mixture; also the mixture itself): admixtum: res admixta. A compound (= compound word): verbum copulatum or junctum (Vid. COMPOUND, adjective).