compeçamiento
Old Spanish
Etymology
From compeçar (“to begin”) + -miento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kõ.pe.t͡saˈmjẽn.to]
Noun
compeçamiento m (usually uncountable)
- beginning
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 44v.
- Fue al cópeçamiento q́ eſtidieron ẏ. enó temieró al criador. etrametio el criador leones. emataró los.
- It was at the beginning that they dwelt there that they did not fear the Creator, and the Creator sent [among them] lions, and they killed them.
- Synonym: començament
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 44v.