frater

See also: Frater

English

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, friar, pal, and vai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

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

Derived terms

• frater house
• fratery
• fratress

Related terms

• fraternal
• fraternity

References

• “frater”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Rafter, farter, rafter

Dutch

Linaria flavirostris

Etymology

From older fryter, frijter. Likely onomatopoeic. A connection to Latin frāter (“brother”) has also been suggested (religious implications; compare to another bird name, paapje), as well as to Latin fritinniō (“to chirp”) and Middle Dutch writen (“to turn, twist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraːtər/

• Audio:

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Noun

frater m (plural fraters, diminutive fratertje n)

1. a twite (Linaria flavirostris, syn. Carduelis flavirostris)

Further reading

• frater (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch frater, from Latin frāter, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of brudel and bruder.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfratər/ [ˈfra.t̪ər]
• Rhymes: -atər
• Syllabification: fra‧ter

Noun

fratêr (plural frater-frater)

1. (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood

Related terms

• padri
• pastor

Further reading

• “frater”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Picture dictionary

frater

atavia

atavus

abavia

abavus

proavia

proavus

avia

/

ava māterna

(LL.)

avus māternus

avia

/

ava paterna

(LL.)

avus paternus

sobrīna

/

cōnsobrīna

sobrīnus

/

cōnsobrīnus

mātruēlis

/

cōnsobrīna

mātruēlis

/

cōnsobrīnus

sobrīna

/

cōnsobrīna

sobrīnus

/

cōnsobrīnus

patruēlis

/

cōnsobrīna

patruēlis

/

cōnsobrīnus

mātertera

avunculus

amita

patruus

/

barbās

(ML.)

māter

pater

sobrīna

/

neptis

/

neptia

(LL.)

sobrīnus

/

nepōs

frātruēlis

(LL.) /

neptis

/

neptia

(LL.)

nepōs

/

frātruus

(ML.) /

frātruēlis

(LL.)

sorōrius

/

marītus sorōris

soror

frāter

frātria

/

uxor frātris

socrus

/

socra

(LL.)

socer

/

patraster

prōsocrus

prōsocer

absocrus

absocer

soror uxōris

frāter uxōris

glōs

lēvir

uxor

/

marīta

/

coniunx

/

nūpta

marītus

/

coniunx

gener

/

fīliaster

fīlia

/

nāta

fīlius

/

nātus

nurus

/

fīliastra

prōgener

neptis

/

neptia

(LL.)

nepōs

prōnurus

proneptis

pronepōs

abneptis

abnepōs

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr

Proto-Italic *frātēr

Latin frater

Inherited from Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfraː.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfraː.ter]

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

1. brother

   Synonym: germānus

   Coordinate term: soror

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	frāter	frātrēs
genitive	frātris	frātrum
dative	frātrī	frātribus
accusative	frātrem	frātrēs
ablative	frātre	frātribus
vocative	frāter	frātrēs

Derived terms

• confrāter
• frātellus
• frāter cōnsanguineus
• frāter uterīnus
• frāterculus
• frāternālis
• frāternē
• frāternitās
• frāternus
• frātricīda
• frātricīdium
• frātruēlis
• frātruus
• Ūnitās Frātrum

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: frade
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: frati, frate
  • Istro-Romanian: fråte
  • Romanian: frate
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: frutro
  • Istriot: fra
  • Italian: frate
    • → English: frate, fra
  • Neapolitan: frate
  • Sicilian: frati
  • Venetan: frade, brade (germanic influenced)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fradi
  • Romansh: frar
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: frar
  • Old Ligurian: frae
    • Ligurian: fræ, frai
  • Old Piedmontese: frère, frer
    • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: frær
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: frâre
  • Old French: frere (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: frare
  • Old Occitan: fraire (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: frade
    • Asturian: frade
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frade, ffrade
    • Galician: frade
    • Portuguese: frade
  • Old Spanish: fradre, frade (early)
• Borrowings:
  • →? Albanian: frat
  • → Dutch: frater (learned)
    • → Indonesian: frater
  • → English: frater (learned)
  • → German: Frater (learned)

Further reading

• “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)