Probablyinherited fromVulgar Latin*compārēscere.

comparecer (first-person singular presentcompareço,first-person singular preteritecompareci,past participlecomparecido)

1. [witha] toattend,appear,turn up

   Ele nãocompareceu à reunião.

   He didn'tattend the meeting.

• comparecimento

• “comparecer”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “comparecer”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025
• “comparecer”, iniDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital,2008–2025
• “comparecer”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025

Fromcon- +‎parecer, based onLatincomparēre, or less likely through aVulgar Latin root*comparescere. In Portuguese the corresponding word was used as the general word for showing up; in Spanish it became specialized to legal contexts.

• IPA^(key):(Spain)/kompaɾeˈθeɾ/[kõm.pa.ɾeˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key):(Latin America, Philippines)/kompaɾeˈseɾ/[kõm.pa.ɾeˈseɾ]
• Rhymes:-eɾ
• Syllabification:com‧pa‧re‧cer

comparecer (first-person singular presentcomparezco,first-person singular preteritecomparecí,past participlecomparecido)

1. (law with preposition ante) toappear,show up(at a court or authority)

   Synonym:presentarse

• “comparecer”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10