incomposite

English

Etymology

From Latin incompositus. By surface analysis, in- +‎ composite.

Adjective

incomposite (not comparable)

Not composite; simple or single.
(mathematics) Prime.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incomposite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

incompositus (“disorderly”) +‎ -ē

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /in.komˈpo.si.teː/, [ɪŋkɔmˈpɔs̠ɪt̪eː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.komˈpo.si.te/, [iŋkomˈpɔːs̬it̪e]

Adverb

incompositē (not comparable)

in a disorderly manner

References

“incomposite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“incomposite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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