Feminine
comare
Meaning
- (feminine) a child's godmother in relation to their parents: a cummer, co-mother; or a child's mother in relation to their co-mother and her family
- (feminine) a female wedding witness or maid of honor in relation to the spouses, or a bride in relation to her wedding witness
- (derogatory, feminine, humorous, sometimes) gossipmonger
- (feminine, informal) mistress (married man's female lover)
Synonyms
sparlatore
lingua lunga
mal parlante
mala lingua
Translations
Hyphenated as
co‧mà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈma.re/
Etymology
From Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Catalan comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese comadre, French commère, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.
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