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- Latin · calque ofcompater
- English todayco-father
From co- + father, in sense 1 as a calque of Latin compater, French compère.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
co-father
Today it means: A person in the relationship of a godfather to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. Full definition →
Latin compater