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1. Camarade, personne que l’on apprécie bien.
2. Amoureux.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French compaing, compain m, from Late Latin compāniō m (nominative form) (compare also Italian compagno m), from com- + pānis m, literally “with-bread”, a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a translation of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib m (“loaf, bread”). See also compagnon m, from the…

More French words

• copagande
• copahine
• copahu
• copaiement
• copain comme cochon
• copain de baise
• copaine
• copains comme cochons

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