Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!
Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.
compás.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
compás.
Principal English Translation:
a measure in music
(a loanword from Spanish, also called a punto)
Orthographic Variants:
gonpas
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Aun yn semibreue vme gonpas mopoa can noyuhqui y pavsa = Y la breve, dos pulsos para que se le cuente igual que a la pausa (seventeenth-century Guatemala)