compote

compote

See also: compôte and compoté

English

Alternative forms

• compot (dated)
• compôte

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of compost.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpəʊt/, /ˈkɒmpɒt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
• Hyphenation: com‧pote

Noun

compote (plural compotes)

1. A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
2. A dish used for serving fruit.

Translations

fruit dessert

Armenian: կոմպոտ (hy) (kompot) Bulgarian: компот m (kompot) Chinese: Mandarin: 蜜餞／蜜饯 (zh) (mìjiàn) Czech: kompot (cs) m Danish: kompot c Dutch: compote (nl) m Esperanto: kompoto Estonian: kompott Finnish: kompotti (fi) French: compote (fr) f German: Kompott (de) n Greek: κομπόστα (el) f (kompósta) Hungarian: kompót (hu) Italian: composta (it) f Japanese: コンポート (konpōto) Kazakh: нәрсу (närsu), компот (kompot) Norwegian: Bokmål: kompott m Polish: kompot (pl) m Portuguese: compota (pt) f Romanian: compot (ro) n Russian: компо́т (ru) m (kompót) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ко̀мпо̄т m Roman: kòmpōt (sh) m Slovene: kompot m Spanish: compota (es) f Swedish: kompott (sv) c Yiddish: קאָמפּאָט‎ m (kompot)

dish used for serving fruit

Bulgarian: купа (bg) (kupa)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pɔt/

Etymology 1

From Old French composte, compost, from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus. Doublet of compost and composite.

Alternative forms

• compôte

Noun

compote f (plural compotes)

1. stewed fruit or meat, compote

Derived terms

• compoter

Descendants

• → 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
• → Spanish: compota
• → Swedish: kompott

Verb

compote

1. inflection of compoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “compote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpɔt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpot̪e]

Adjective

compote

1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of compos