compadre
Meaning
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- (masculine) godfather of one's child
- (masculine) parent of one's godchild
- (masculine) friend, especially a very close and honoured male friend
- (colloquial, masculine) father of one's child's spouse
- (Mexico, masculine) binge or partying habitual companion
- (Argentina, masculine) person of the generation whose parents fought in Argentina's war of independence from Spain.
- (Nicaragua, colloquial, masculine) the relation between a man and his wife's lover, or in the case of divorce, the relation between the previous and current husband (in general, the relation between two men who have been involved with the same woman)
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
com‧pa‧dre
Pronounced as (IPA)
/komˈpadɾe/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish cuémpadre, from Late Latin compatrem, from com- + Latin pater (“father”). Dialectal cumpa is a doublet.
New
compadrar
- to become godparents or godchildren
- to become good friends with; to buddy up
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