pair of compasses
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navigational compass
11 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Burmese | |
| Lexeme | kunpa (ကွန်ပါ) | |
| Meaning 1 | compasses | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | compass | |
| Reference | Novikov et al. 1976: 75 SEAlang Burmrse | |
| Comment | a borrowing from English. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Catalan | |
| Lexeme | compàs | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | navigational compass | |
| Reference | DIEC2 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | compass | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses (technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs. As dividers, it can also be used as a tool to mark out distances, in particular, on maps) | a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right (1890, Wilhelm Westhofen, The Forth Bridge) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | magnetometer used for navigation and orientation that shows direction in regards to the geographic cardinal points. The structure of a compass consists of the compass rose, which displays the four main directions on it: East (E), South (S), West (W) and North (N). | to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please (1701, Jonathan Swift, chapter 5, in A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome) |
| Reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | compas | |
| Meaning 1 | compasses | compas à trois branches tripod compasses |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | sea compass | naviguer au compas to sail with a compass |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Galician | |
| Lexeme | compás | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | navigational compass | |
| Reference | DDDDLG | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Irish Gaelic | |
| Lexeme | compás | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | navigational compass | compás maighnéadach 'magnetic compass', bosca compáis 'binnacle', compás stiúrtha 'steering compass' |
| Reference | Ó Dónaill 1977 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme | compasso | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (proscribed) navigational compass | |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | The second meaning is considered to be the result of English influence |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | compás | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (navigation, rare) navigational compass | |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tagalog | |
| Lexeme | kompas | |
| Meaning 1 | pair of compasses | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | navigational compass | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018 https://diksiyonaryo.ph/search/kompas |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Waray | |
| Lexeme | kompás | |
| Meaning 1 | instrument for making circles | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | mariner's compass | |
| Reference | SEAlang Waray | |
| Comment | From Spanish |
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from O.Fr. compas 'circle, radius, pair of compasses' (12c.), from compasser 'to go around, measure, divide equally', from Vulgar Latin *compassare 'to pace out' (cf. It. compassare, Sp. compasar), from L. com- 'together' + passus 'step'. The mathematical instrument so called from mid-14c. The mariners' directional tool (so called since early 15c.) took the name, perhaps, because it's round and has a point like the mathematical instrument. The word is in most European languages, with a mathematical sense in Romance, a nautical sense in Germanic, and both in English. www.etymonline.com