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Spanish
Etymology
From compadre + -azgo. Literally, “co-parents”, but referring to co-godparenthood or joint sponsorship of a godchild or ritual object.
Noun
compadrazgo m (plural compadrazgos)
- co-godparenthood or joint sponsorship of a godchild or ritual object; relation or connection of parents with the godparents of one's child
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 116:Para la gente del pueblo, el compadrazgo entre personas de distinto sexo, imposibilita la unión sexual entre ellas.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Latin America) kinship; companionship; fellowship
References
- Counting on Kin: Social Networks, Social Support, and Child Health Status. Shawn Malia Kana'iaupuni, Katharine M Donato, Theresa Thompson-Colón, Melissa Stainback. Social Forces. Chapel Hill: Mar 2005. Vol. 83 #3; pg. 1137
- Las Comadres as a social support system. Rebecca A Lopez. Affilia. Thousand Oaks: Spring 1999. Vol. 14 #1; pg. 24.
- The Forgotten Liberator: Buenaventura Martínez and Yucatán's Republican Restoration.Terry Rugeley. Mexican Studies. Berkeley: Summer 2003.Vol. 19 #2; pg. 331.
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