cumpa

See also: cumpà

Spanish

Etymology

From Sicilian cumpà ~ Neapolitan cumpà (“buddy, pal”, akin to Italian compare, Sicilian cumpari, Spanish compadre, from Latin compater, literally “godfather”). Doublet of compadre. Compare compa for a parallel development within Spanish. See more at the English cognate goombah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumpa/ [ˈkũm.pa]
• Rhymes: -umpa
• Syllabification: cum‧pa

Noun

cumpa m or f by sense (plural cumpas)

1. (Peru, Chile, Argentina) mate, buddy

   Synonyms: compadre, compa

Further reading

• “cumpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024