# co-mother

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
2. In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
3. In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
4. 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.

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/co-mother