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/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
• 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/

Etymology 1

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
• → 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) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpɔt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpot̪e]

Adjective

compote

1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of compos