compota
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: compotas, compotât
Verb
compota
- third-person singular past historic of compoter
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French compote (“mixture”).[1][2] Piecewise doublet of composta and compósita.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kõˈpɔ.tɐ/
- Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
- Hyphenation: com‧po‧ta
Noun
compota f (plural compotas)
- jam (sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar)
- Synonyms: doce, geleia
- compote
Related terms
- compoteira
References
- “compota” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “compota” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From French compote. Doublet of compuesta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komˈpota/ [kõmˈpo.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ota
- Syllabification: com‧po‧ta
Noun
compota f (plural compotas)
- compote
Further reading
- “compota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014