Féminin

commère

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (colloquial, feminine) gossipper, busybody
  2. (feminine, obsolete) the godmother of one's child or the mother of one's godchild

Fréquence

30k
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/kɔ.mɛʁ/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

Inherited from Old French, borrowed (according to the TLF) from Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Italian and Catalan comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish comadre, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.

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