componer

/kompoˈneɾ/ · B2 · verb

to repair, fix

🎼🔧 com- (together) + poner (to put) = put together: compose, make up, fix

Componer comes from Latin componere: com- (together) + ponere (to put). Putting notes together gives a musical composition, putting parts together makes up a whole, and putting broken parts back together repairs them. Same root as English compose and component.

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