compote

See also: compoté

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of compost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpəʊt/, /ˈkɒmpɒt/
• 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)
• Czech: kompot (cs) m
• Danish: kompot c
• 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompott m

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• 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
• Yiddish: קאָמפּאָט m (kompot)

dish used for serving fruit

• Bulgarian: купа (bg) (kupa)
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French

Etymology

From Old French composte, compost, from Latin compostus, syncopated variant of compositus. Doublet of compost and composite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pɔt/

Noun

compote f (plural compotes)

1. stewed fruit or meat, compote

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.