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/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: com‧pote

Noun

compote (plural compotes)

A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
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/

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)

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

Verb

compote

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) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpɔt̪ɛ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpot̪e]

Adjective

compote

ablative masculine/neuter singular of compos

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