(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)