commère
French
noun
Definitions
- (colloquial) gossip, busybody
- (obsolete) the godmother of one's child or the mother of one's godchild
Etymology
Prefix from French mère borrowed from Latin commater, commātrem, commāter, māter (mother, in the sense of 'source').
Origin
Latin
māter
Gloss
mother, in the sense of 'source'
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
母
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cummer English
- mater English
- matrimony English
- matronymic English
- *matrasta Latin
- *matrastra Latin
- *matrīna Latin
- com- Latin
- commater, commatrem Latin
- commater, commātrem, commāter Latin
- commāter Latin
- commātrem Latin
- matercula Latin
- materia Latin
- maternus Latin
- matralis Latin
- matresco Latin
- matricida Latin
- matricidium Latin
- matrimonium Latin
- māter Latin
- māternus Latin
- comare Italian
- mate Italian
- matrigna Italian
- belle-mère French
- commérage French
- mère French
- mère-grand French
- madre Spanish, Castilian
- -άρχης Ancient Greek
- *méh₂tēr Proto-Indo-European
- comadre Portuguese
- matere Middle English
- mater Czech
- commère Old French
- marrene Old French
- matriarche Old French
- medre Old French
- mere Middle French
- mãy Old Portuguese
- *mātēr Proto-Italic
- cummari Sicilian
- kòmè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- mader Lombard