compare

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English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviations): cp., comp.

Etymology

From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛɚ/, [kəmˈpɛɚ], [kəmˈpɛɹ], [kəmˈpeɚ], [kəmˈpeɹ]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛə/, [kəmˈpɛː], [kəmˈpɛə], [kəmˈpeə]
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Verb

compare (third-person singular simple present compares, present participle comparing, simple past and past participle compared)

1. (transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
2. (transitive) To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
3. (transitive, grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).

4. (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative).
5. (obsolete) To get; to obtain.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• comparand, comparandum
• comparative
• comparison
• cf

Translations

Noun

compare (countable and uncountable, plural compares)

1. (uncountable) Comparison.
2. (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
   • 2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs

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3. (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.

Derived terms

See also

• contrast

References

• “compare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• compear, pomerac, precoma

Asturian

Verb

compare

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of comparar

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʁ

Verb

compare

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

Galician

Verb

compare

1. inflection of comparar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: com‧pà‧re

Etymology 1

From Late Latin compatrem, from Latin com- (“together”) + pater (“father”), whence also padre. Cognate to Neapolitan cumpà, Sicilian cumpari; see more at compater.

Noun

compare m (plural compari, feminine comare)

1. a child's godfather in relation to their parents: a co-father; or a child's father in relation to their co-father and his family

   Synonym: padrino

2. (extensively) a male wedding witness or best man in relation to the spouses, or a bridegroom in relation to his wedding witness

   Synonyms: testimone, testimone di nozze

3. (extensively) a way of addressing an old male friend

   Synonym: amico

4. (extensively, derogatory) accomplice

   Synonym: complice

Derived terms

• comparaggio
• comparatico

Related terms

• pare

See also

• comare

Etymology 2

Verb

compare

1. third-person singular present indicative of comparire

   Synonym: comparisce

Anagrams

• camperò, compera

Latin

Verb

compārē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of compāreō

Middle English

Verb

compare

1. Alternative form of comparen

Portuguese

Verb

compare

1. inflection of comparar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [komˈpare]

Verb

compare

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of compara

Spanish

Verb

compare

1. inflection of comparar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative