cumpa
See also: cumpà
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumpa m or f by sense (plural cumpas)
Further reading
[edit]- “cumpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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