fraternity

English

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

From Middle English fraternite, borrowed from Old French fraternité, from Latin frāternitās, ultimately from frāter (“brother”).

Noun

fraternity (countable and uncountable, plural fraternities)

1. The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.
2. A group of people associated for a common purpose.
3. (US) A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

Synonyms

• brotherhood
• community

Antonyms

• disfavor

Related terms

• fraternal
• fraternise, fraternize
• fratricide
• fraternity house
• sorority

Translations

the quality of being brothers

• Armenian: եղբայրություն (hy) (ełbayrutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: братство (bg) (bratstvo)
• Catalan: germanor f, fraternitat (ca) f
• Esperanto: frateco (eo)
• Finnish: veljeys (fi)
• Galician: irmandade (gl) f
• German: Bruderschaft (de) f

• Macedonian: братство n (bratstvo)
• Malayalam: സാഹോദര്യം (sāhōdaryaṃ)
• Polish: braterstwo (pl) n, fraternia (pl)
• Portuguese: fraternidade (pt) f, irmandade (pt) f
• Romanian: fraternitate (ro) f, frăție (ro) f
• Russian: бра́тство (ru) n (brátstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: bràtstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: hermandad (es)
• Turkish: kardeşlik (tr)

group of people associated for a common purpose

• Afrikaans: broederskap (af)
• Armenian: համայնք (hy) (hamaynkʿ)
• Bulgarian: братство (bg) n (bratstvo)
• Czech: spolek (cs) m
• Esperanto: frataro
• Finnish: veljeskunta (fi)
• French: fraternité (fr) f
• Galician: irmandade (gl) f
• German: Gemeinschaft (de) f, Vereinigung (de) f
• Greek: αδελφότητα (el) f (adelfótita)
• Italian: fratellanza (it)

• Macedonian: братство n (bratstvo)
• Polish: bractwo (pl)
• Portuguese: irmandade (pt)
• Romanian: fraternitate (ro) f
• Russian: бра́тство (ru) n (brátstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: bràtstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: fraternidad (es) f, confraternidad
• Tahitian: autaeaʻeraʻa
• Turkish: dernek (tr), cemiyet (tr), kardeşlik (tr), birlik (tr)

social organization of male students

• Bulgarian: студентско сдружение n (studentsko sdruženie)
• Esperanto: frataro
• German: Verbindung (de) f, Burschenschaft (de) f

• Polish: korporacja (pl) f
• Turkish: erkek öğrenci birliği

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} fraternité (fr) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 띠앗 (ko) (ttiat) (ttiat)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} fraternitas f

See also

• sorority