frater
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
PIE word |
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*bʰréh₂tēr |
Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of friar, brother, and pal.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frater (plural fraters)
- A monk.
- A frater house.
- A comrade.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Dutch frater, from Latin frāter, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of bruder.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fratêr (first-person possessive fraterku, second-person possessive fratermu, third-person possessive fraternya)
- (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “frater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension
- brother
- Synonym: germānus
- friend, lover
- sibling
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | frāter | frātrēs |
Genitive | frātris | frātrum |
Dative | frātrī | frātribus |
Accusative | frātrem | frātrēs |
Ablative | frātre | frātribus |
Vocative | frāter | frātrēs |
Derived terms[edit]
- confrāter
- frāter cōnsanguineus
- frāterculus
- frāternālis
- frāternē
- frāternitās
- frāternus
- frāter uterīnus
- frātricīda
- frātricīdium
- frātruēlis
- Ūnitās Frātrum
Descendants[edit]
- Balkan Romance
- Dalmatian:
- Istriot:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
Further reading[edit]
- “frater”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *bʰréh₂tēr
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Monasticism
- en:People
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
- Indonesian terms derived from Dutch
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- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Indonesian doublets
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- Indonesian lemmas
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- Requests for plural forms in Indonesian entries
- id:Catholicism
- id:People
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Ecclesiastical Latin
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Male family members