0 a friend or someone you trust, for example because they work with you or come from the same place as you; used especially by or of a Spanish-speaking person: --
In its original form, the "compadre" relationship among the strongest types of family love soon after one's nuclear family.
Thus, the child's father will call the child's godmother comadre, while she will call him compadre, and so on.
However, he maintains himself through most of the series as her most supportive compadre.
When a person baptizes somebody's child, he or she becomes the padrino (godfather) of the child and the compadre or comadre of the child's parents.
There is a relationship of respect, mutual affection and obligation between the child, parents and compadres.
Moreover, one can extend secondary relationships to the kin and compadres of a compadre, with whom one has a primary relationship.
Now, the term compadre, or its abbreviated form pare, is normally used in address to indicate intimacy and equality.
By converting a patron into a compadre, a client is again trying to represent a fundamentally hierarchical relationship as one of mutuality and reciprocity.
