frater

See also: Frater

English

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

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

Derived terms

• frater house
• fratery

Related terms

• fraternal
• fraternity

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fratər/
• Hyphenation: fra‧têr

Noun

fratêr (first-person possessive fraterku, second-person possessive fratermu, third-person possessive fraternya)

1. (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood

Related terms

• padri
• pastor

 

Further reading

• “frater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfraː.ter/, [ˈfräːt̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ter/, [ˈfräːt̪er]

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

1. brother

   Synonym: germānus

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Balkan Romance
  • Aromanian: frati, frate
  • Istro-Romanian: fråte
  • Romanian: frate
• Dalmatian:
  • frutro
• Istriot:
  • fra
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: frate
    • → English: fra
  • Neapolitan: fràte
  • Sicilian: frati

• Padanian:
  • Friulian: fradi
  • Piedmontese: fraire
  • Romansch: frar
  • Venetian: frade, brate
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: frâre, frâr
  • Old French: frere, fradre, fredre
    • Middle French: frere
      • French: frère
      • Norman: frère (Guernsey), fréthe (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: frere, ffrere, ffreere, ffryr, ffryre, freere, frer, frir, fryere
      • English: friar
      • Scots: freer (archaic)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: fraire
    • Occitan: fraire, frair
    • → Old Portuguese: freire, freira
      • Portuguese: freire, frei, freira
      • Galician: frei
    • → Spanish: fraile, fray
    • →? Venetian: frar
      • → Cimbrian: fraar

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Portuguese: frade
    • Galician: frade
    • Portuguese: frade
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: frade
• → Albanian: frat
• → Dutch: frater (learned)
  • → Indonesian: frater
• → English: frater (learned)
• → German: Frater (learned)

Further reading

• “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)