compote

See also: compôte and compoté

English

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compote

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• compot (dated)
• compôte

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of composite, compost, and kompot.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pɔt/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France):

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Etymology 1

Inherited 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
• → Persian: کمپوت (kompot)
• → Russian: компо́т (kompót)
  • → Armenian: կոմպոտ (kompot), կամպոտ (kampot)
  • → Georgian: კომპოტი (ḳomṗoṭi), კამპოტი (ḳamṗoṭi)
  • → Mingrelian: კამფოტი (ḳampoṭi)
• → Spanish: compota
• → Swedish: kompott

Etymology 2

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.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.pɔ.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.po.t̪e]

Adjective

compote

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of compos