Noun: compadre
| Singular | compadre |
| Plural | compadres |
Sample Sentences
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Whenever he had a compadre or a friend, it was his bounden duty to do him some service. [1839, J. P., W. P. Robertson, Letters from Paraguay, comprising an account of four years residence in that republic, under the dictator Francia, London: John Murray, page 339:]
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He looks like a solid guy. Hiro leans into him. "Compadre, who is the guy with the antenna? A friend of yours?" [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 367:]
Nouns inflected like compadre
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish compadre (“joint father, godfather, friend”). Doublet of compeer, compere, and goombah. See: Spanish Nouns '
compadre'.