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.