compote - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• compot (dated)
• compôte

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of composite and compost.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmpəʊt/, /ˈkɒmpɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
• Hyphenation: com‧pote

compote (plural compotes)

1. A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
2. A dish used for serving fruit.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pɔt/

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

• compôte

compote f (plural compotes)

1. stewed fruit or meat, compote

• compoter

compote

1. inflection of compoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “compote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpɔt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.po.te/, [ˈkɔmpot̪e]

compote

1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of compos