compater

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin com-

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr

Proto-Italic *patēr

Latin pater

Latin compater

From com- (“joint”) + pater (“father”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.pa.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.pa.ter]

Noun

compater m (genitive compatris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) godfather (in relation to godchild or fellow godparent or parent)
2. (informal) a male companion, buddy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	compater	compatrēs
genitive	compatris	compatrum
dative	compatrī	compatribus
accusative	compatrem	compatrēs
ablative	compatre	compatribus
vocative	compater	compatrēs

Coordinate terms

• commāter

Descendants

• Aragonese: compair, commair
• Catalan: compare
• → Old English: cumpæder
• Old French: comper, conper
  • Middle French: comper
    • → Middle English: comper
      • English: compeer
    • French: compère
      • → Belizean Creole: kompeh
      • → English: compere, compère
      • → Greek: κομπέρ (kompér)
• Italian: compare
• Neapolitan: cumpà
  • → English: goombah
  • → Spanish: cumpa
• Old Galician-Portuguese: compadre, conpadre
  • Galician: compadre
  • Portuguese: compadre
• Old Spanish: cuémpadre
  • Spanish: compadre (see there for further descendants)
• Sicilian: cumpari
• → Proto-Slavic: *kъmotrъ
  • Czech: kmotr
  • Slovak: kmotor
  • Lower Sorbian: kmótš
  • Polish: kmotr
  • Romanian: cumătru (possibly)
  • Silesian: chmotrz
  • ⇒? *kumъ
    • Macedonian: кум (kum)
    • Russian: кум (kum)
      • → Latvian: kūma, kūmas (“godparent”)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ку̑м

      Latin script: kȗm

    • ⇒ *kuma (“godmother”)
      • Macedonian: кума (kuma)
      • Polish: kuma
      • Russian: кума (kuma)
      • Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: кума

        Latin script: kuma

• Venetan: conpare
  • → Greek: κουμπάρος (koumpáros)

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “compater”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “compater”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• compater in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Keith Sidwell (1995), Reading Medieval Latin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)