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comadre.

midwife

7 characters3 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/koˈmadɾe/[koˈma.ð̞ɾe]
  1. midwife

    feminine
  2. the godmother of one's child

    feminine
  3. the mother of one's godchild

    feminine
  4. a very dear and honoured female friend; sister

    feminine
  5. a female gossipper, busybody

    colloquial · feminine
  6. go-between

    colloquial · feminine
  7. female equivalent of compadre

    feminine · form-of
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Catalan and Italian comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician and Portuguese comadre, French commère, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.

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