compadecer

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *compātīscere, from Latin compātī.

• Hyphenation: com‧pa‧de‧cer

compadecer (first-person singular present compadeço, first-person singular preterite compadeci, past participle compadecido)

1. (transitive) to make someone feel pity
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, intransitive) to feel pity
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de or por (uncommon)) to pity; to feel sorry for
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with com) to conform to (to be compatible with)
5. (transitive) to accept; to tolerate (to regard as proper; not to intervene with)

• compadecimento

• compaixão
• padecer

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *compatiscere, from Latin compati.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kompadeˈθeɾ/ [kõm.pa.ð̞eˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kompadeˈseɾ/ [kõm.pa.ð̞eˈseɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: com‧pa‧de‧cer

compadecer (first-person singular present compadezco, first-person singular preterite compadecí, past participle compadecido)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to feel sorry (for); to pity

   Synonym: lastimar

2. (transitive, reflexive) to sympathise with

   Synonym: simpatizar

• “compadecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014