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noun a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer
verb convert to compost
originFrom Middle English compost, from Old Northern French compost (“a mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land, also a condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed”), from componere. Doublet of compote, which was taken from modern French, composite, and kompot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0