• vt. 構成；寫作；使平靜；排…的版
• vi. 組成；作曲；排字

com-, 強調。-pos, 放置，詞源同opponent, position. 即放在一起的。

compose

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.

1. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.

他們必須每人作一首嚴格押頭韻的詩。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Protein molecules compose all the complex working parts of living cells.

活細胞中所有復雜的運行成分都由蛋白質分子構成。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Most software programs allow you to compose emails offline.

大部分軟件程序允許用戶在脫機狀態下寫電子郵件。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Cale also uses electronic keyboards to compose.

凱爾也用電子鍵盤譜曲。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Ten men compose the committee.

委員會由十人組成。

來自《權威詞典》