different between compeer vs confederate

English

Etymology

From Middle English comper, from Middle French comper, from Latin compater, compatrem. Doublet of compere as well as compadre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p??(?)/, /k?m?p??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

compeer (plural compeers)

1. (obsolete) The equal or peer of someone else; a close companion or associate.

Verb

compeer (third-person singular simple present compeers, present participle compeering, simple past and past participle compeered)

1. To be equal with; to match.

Anagrams

• Compere, compere, compère, precome

English

Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d???t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d??e?t/

Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

Translations

Adjective

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.

Quotations

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12

  Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,

  Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

Translations

Verb

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.

Italian

Adjective

confederate

1. feminine plural of confederato

Noun

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
3. feminine plural of confederato