comare
Italian (Fiorentino)
/koˈma.re/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- (extensively) A female wedding witness or maid of honor in relation to the spouses, or a bride in relation to her wedding witness.
- (extensively) gossipmonger
- (extensively) mistress married man's female lover
Etymology
Inherited from Latin commātrem, 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
- 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
- mate Italian
- matrigna Italian
- commère French
- commérage French
- mère 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
- conméthe Norman
- mãy Old Portuguese
- *mātēr Proto-Italic
- cummari Sicilian
- kòmè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- cummà Neapolitan
- mader Lombard