compter

to count; to reckon, allow; to include; to comprise, to consist of; to comprise, to consist of; to matter

“Pour se rendre jusque là, il faut compter deux bonnes heures.” — To get there, it takes two good hours.

Inherited from Middle French compter, conter, from Old French compter, conter, cunter, from Latin computāre. Doublet of conter and computer. The learned spelling -mpt- was originally used interchangeably with the phonetic spelling -nt-. In modern French they have been split in such a way that the Latinizing form represents the sense “to count”, which was already present in Latin, while the native form represents the derived sense “to tell” (see conter).