compadecer

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *compātīscere, from Latin compātī.

• Hyphenation: com‧pa‧de‧cer

compadecer (first-person singular present compadeço, first-person singular preterite compadeci, past participle compadecido)

1. (transitive) to make someone feel pity
2. (pronominal, intransitive) to feel pity
3. (pronominal) to pity; to feel sorry for [with de or (uncommon) por ‘someone’]
4. (pronominal) to conform to (to be compatible with) [with com ‘something, e.g. a norm’]
5. (transitive) to accept; to tolerate (to regard as proper; not to intervene with)

• compadecimento

• compaixão
• padecer

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *compatiscere, from Latin compati.

• IPA^(key): /kompadeˈθeɾ/ [kõm.pa.ð̞eˈθeɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kompadeˈseɾ/ [kõm.pa.ð̞eˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: com‧pa‧de‧cer

compadecer (first-person singular present compadezco, first-person singular preterite compadecí, past participle compadecido)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to feel sorry (for); to pity

   Synonym: lastimar

2. (transitive, reflexive) to sympathise with

   Synonym: simpatizar

• “compadecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024