compote
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of compost.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒmpəʊt/, /ˈkɒmpɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: com‧pote
Noun edit
compote (plural compotes)
Translations edit
fruit dessert
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French composte, compost, from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus. Doublet of compost and composite.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
compote f (plural compotes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: compota
- → Czech: kompot
- → Danish: kompot
- → Dutch: compote
- → English: compote
- → Galician: compota
- → German: Kompott
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kompott
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kompott
- → Polish: kompot
- → Portuguese: compota
- → Romanian: compot
- → Russian: компо́т (kompót)
- → Spanish: compota
- → Swedish: kompott
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
compote
- inflection of compoter:
Further reading edit
- “compote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpɔt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpot̪e]
Adjective edit
compote