compos mentis

/ˈkɒmpɒs ˈmɛntɪs/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

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adj

"‘[…] you have my hearty consent, sir, to marry the girl whensumdever it’s convenient.’ Dame Mayrose finished her speech with a low courtesy, and Tom Sponge sat like a petrified image. ‘For God’s sake, Mrs. Mayrose, are you compos mentis?’ said he. ‘Please your honour, I don’t understand no foreign languages,’ said the good woman, ‘but my darter tells me you want to make proposhalls.’"

From Latin compos (“in control, having mastery”) + mentis (“of mind”).

of sound mind

non compos mentis

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The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɒmpɒs ˈmɛntɪs/.

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Where does compos mentis come from?

It is traced to Latin.

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