cumpa

See also: cumpà

Spanish

Etymology

From Neapolitan cumpà (“buddy, pal”, akin to Italian compare, Sicilian cumpari, Spanish compadre, from Latin compater, literally “godfather”). Doublet of compadre. Compare compa for a parallel development within Spanish. See more at the English cognate goombah.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkumpa/ [ˈkũm.pa]
Rhymes: -umpa
Syllabification: cum‧pa

Noun

cumpa m or f by sense (plural cumpas)

(Peru, Chile, Argentina) mate, buddy
Synonyms: compadre, compa

Further reading

“cumpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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