commère
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French, borrowed (according to the TLF) from Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Italian and Catalan comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish comadre, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
commère f (plural commères)
- (colloquial) gossipper, busybody
- Synonym: bavard
- (obsolete) the godmother of one's child or the mother of one's godchild
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “commère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.