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Compted vs Compter - What's the difference?

compted | compter |

As a verb compted

is (compt).

As a noun compter is

(obsolete) a counter (en).

compted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (compt)

    • compt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) comptus, past participle of (comere) to care for, comb, arrange, adorn.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) neat; spruce
    • (Cotgrave)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) compte.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) account; reckoning; computation
  • *{{quote-book, year=1608, author=William Shakespeare, title=Macbeth, chapter=, edition=, url=
    • , passage=Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt , /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To compute; to count.
    • (Webster 1913)

    compter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A counter. (en)
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter.
  • * 2003 , John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England , Oxford, page 284
    • Each sheriff had his own compter , which were both prisons and offices, administered by the respective secondaries.
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