frater

See also: Frater

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”).

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

1. A monk.
2. A frater house.
3. A comrade.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for frater in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Rafter, farter, rafter

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognates include Ancient Greek φρᾱ́τηρ (phrā́tēr), Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrā́tṛ) and Old English brōþor (English brother).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfraː.ter/, [ˈfraː.tɛr]

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

1. brother
2. friend, lover
3. sibling
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frāter	frātrēs
Genitive	frātris	frātrum
Dative	frātrī	frātribus
Accusative	frātrem	frātrēs
Ablative	frātre	frātribus
Vocative	frāter	frātrēs

Derived terms

• confrāter
• frāterculus
• frāternālis
• frāternē
• frāternitās

• frāternus
• frātricīda
• frātricīdium
• frātruēlis
• Ūnitās Frātrum

Descendants

• Albanian: (religious) frat
• Aromanian: frati, frate
• Catalan: frare; frari, flare, flari, fraire (via Occitan)
• Corsican: frateddu
• Dalmatian: frutro
• → English: frater
• Franco-Provençal: frâre
• Old French: fradre, fredre, frere
  • Middle French: frere
    • French: frère
  • → Middle English: frere, freyer, frier
    • English: friar
• Friulian: fradi
• Galician: frade, frei
• Istriot: fra
• Istro-Romanian: fråte
• Italian: fratello, frate
  • → English: fra

• Norman: fréthe
• Neapolitan: fràte
• Occitan: fraire
• Old Portuguese: frade, freire (via Old Occitan), freira
• Portuguese: frade, freire (via Old Occitan), frei, freira
• Proto-Romanian: fratre
• Romanian: frate
• Romansch: frar
• Sardinian: fràde
• Sicilian: frati, frateddu
• Spanish: fraile, fray
• Venetian: fradel, fradelo

References

• frater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• frater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frater in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)