compotator

== English == === Etymology === From Old French compotateur, from Late Latin compōtātōr, compōtātōrem, from Latin com-, alternative form of con- (“with”) (equivalent to English com- or con-) + pōtātor (“drinker”), from pōtare (“to drink”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒm.pəˌteɪ.tə/, /ˈkɒmp.əʊ-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɒm.pɵˌteɪ.tɚ/, /-ɾɚ/ Hyphenation: com‧po‧ta‧tor === Noun === compotator (plural compotators) One who drinks (alcoholic beverages) with another; a fellow drinker. 1820, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Ivanhoe”, in Ivanhoe: A Romance, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, London, OCLC 5663356; republished as Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Two Volumes (Waverley Novels; 15), volume I, Parker's edition, Boston, Mass.: Samuel H[ale] Parker, 164 Washington-Street, 1831, OCLC 191248655, page xi: [T]he hospitable anchorite […] dispatches an assistant to fetch a pot of four gallons from a secret corner near his bed, and the whole three set in to serious drinking. This amusement is superintended by the Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank—a species of High Jinks, as it were, by which they regulated their potations, as toasts were given in latter times.