compota

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: compotas, compotât

Verb

compota

1. third-person singular past historic of compoter

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote (“mixture”). Piecewise doublet of composta and compósita.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kõˈpɔ.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kõˈpɔ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: com‧po‧ta

Noun

compota f (plural compotas)

1. jam (sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar)

   Synonyms: doce, geleia

2. compote

Derived terms

• compoteira

Further reading

• “compota”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of compuesta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈpota/ [kõmˈpo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: com‧po‧ta

Noun

compota f (plural compotas)

1. compote (fruit dessert)

Further reading

• “compota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025