compater

Latin

From con- (“together-”) +‎ pater (“father”).

compater m (genitive compatris); third declension

Third-declension noun.

Catalan: compare
→ Old English: cumpæder
Old French: comper, conper
- Middle French: comper
  - → Middle English: comper
    - English: compeer
  - French: compère
    - → Belizean Creole: kompeh
    - → English: compere, compère
Italian: compare
Neapolitan: cumpà
- → English: goombah
- → Spanish: cumpa
Old Galician-Portuguese: compadre, conpadre
- Galician: compadre
- Portuguese: compadre
Old Spanish: cuémpadre
- Spanish: compadre (see there for further descendants)
Sicilian: cumpari
→ Proto-Slavic: *kъmotrъ
- Czech: kmotr
- Slovak: kmotor
- Lower Sorbian: kmótš
- Polish: kmotr
- ⇒? *kumъ
  - Macedonian: кум (kum)
  - Russian: кум (kum)
    - → Latvian: kūma, kūmas (“godparent”)
  - Serbo-Croatian: kȗm / ку̑м
  - ⇒ *kuma f (“godmother”)
    - Macedonian: кума (kuma)
    - Polish: kuma
    - Russian: кума (kuma)
    - Serbo-Croatian: kuma / кума
Venetian: conpare
- → Greek: κουμπάρος (koumpáros)

R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “compater”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
compater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
compater in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Keith Sidwell (1995), Reading Medieval Latin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

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