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noun, feminine

commère

/kɔ.mɛʁ/

noun, feminine/kɔ.mɛʁ/plural: commères

gossipper, busybody; the godmother of one's child or the mother of one's godchild

Synonyms: bavard, marraine

Inherited from Old French, borrowed (according to the TLF) from Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Italian and Catalan comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish comadre, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.

commère — French Dictionary | Passage