co-mother

English

Alternative forms

commother

Etymology

com- +‎ mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère

Noun

co-mother (plural co-mothers)

(obsolete) the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
- 1967, Charles Wagley, Joao José Rescála, Amazon town, page 151:
  It is considered incestuous for a co-mother and co-father to have sex relations
in polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother
- 2001, Thomas Slone, One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales form 1972–1985, page 321:
  the two of them went to their mother's forest hut and tried to find a way to avenge their mother's death and kill their co-mother.
in polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children
- 2003, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmi, African women and feminism: reflecting on the politics of sisterhood, page 13:
  Notwithstanding the voluminous “co-wife” literature that Western anthropologists have used to define African marriage, “co-mother” is the preferred idiom in many African cultures for expressing the relationship amongst women married into the same family.
in a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child
- 2004, Robert Parkin, Linda Stone, Kinship and family: an anthropological reader, page 384:
  The dilemmas engendered by the absence of a biological tie between a child and co-mother illuminate the centrality of familial rights and obligations in American kinship.

Synonyms

(relationship of a godmother): cummer, gossip, commère
(nonbirth mother, father's other wife): stepmother
(co-wife): sister-wife

Coordinate terms

co-father
co-parent

Related terms

co-sister
co-aunt
co-grandmother
co-wife
co-mother-in-law

单词	co-mother
释义	co-mother English Alternative forms commother Etymology com- +‎ mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère Noun co-mother (plural co-mothers) (obsolete) the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. 1967, Charles Wagley, Joao José Rescála, Amazon town, page 151: It is considered incestuous for a co-mother and co-father to have sex relations in polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother 2001, Thomas Slone, One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales form 1972–1985, page 321: the two of them went to their mother's forest hut and tried to find a way to avenge their mother's death and kill their co-mother. in polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children 2003, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmi, African women and feminism: reflecting on the politics of sisterhood, page 13: Notwithstanding the voluminous “co-wife” literature that Western anthropologists have used to define African marriage, “co-mother” is the preferred idiom in many African cultures for expressing the relationship amongst women married into the same family. in a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child 2004, Robert Parkin, Linda Stone, Kinship and family: an anthropological reader, page 384: The dilemmas engendered by the absence of a biological tie between a child and co-mother illuminate the centrality of familial rights and obligations in American kinship. Synonyms (relationship of a godmother): cummer, gossip, commère (nonbirth mother, father's other wife): stepmother (co-wife): sister-wife Coordinate terms co-father co-parent Related terms co-sister co-aunt co-grandmother co-wife co-mother-in-law
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