frater
See also: Frater
Contents
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Latin frater (“brother”).
Noun[edit]
frater (plural fraters)
- A monk.
- A frater house.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension
- brother
- friend, lover
- sibling
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | frāter | frātrēs |
genitive | frātris | frātrum |
dative | frātrī | frātribus |
accusative | frātrem | frātrēs |
ablative | frātre | frātribus |
vocative | frāter | frātrēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Albanian: (religious) frat
- Aromanian: frati, frate
- Catalan: frare; frari, flare, flari, fraire (via Occitan)
- Corsican: frateddu
- English: friar
- Dalmatian: frutro
- Franco-Provençal: frâre
- French: frère
- Friulian: fradi
- Galician: frade, frei
- Istriot: fra
- Istro-Romanian: fråte
- Italian: fratello, frate
- 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[edit]
- 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
- remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
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