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co-mother

noun

Etymology

* com- + mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère.

  1. derived from *muþraz✻ — “sediment”
  2. inherited from *méh₂tēr✻
  3. inherited from *mōdēr✻
  4. inherited from *mōder✻
  5. inherited from mōdor
  6. inherited from moder
  7. prefixed as co-mother — “com + mother”

Definitions

  1. The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a…

    The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.

    • It is considered incestuous for a co-mother and co-father to have sex relations

  2. In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother

    In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.

    • the two of them went to their mother's forest hut and tried to find a way to avenge their mother's death and kill their co-mother.

  3. In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their…

    In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child,…

      In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.

      • The dilemmas engendered by the absence of a biological tie between a child and co-mother illuminate the centrality of familial rights and obligations in American kinship.

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