soror

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

soror (plural sorors)

1. (colloquial) A sorority sister; a fellow member of one's sorority.

Anagrams

• ROROs

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin soror.

Noun

soror (plural sorores)

1. sister

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ror/, [ˈs̠ɔrɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ror/, [ˈsɔːror]

Noun

soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension

1. sister
2. cousin, daughter of a father's brother
3. female friend

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	soror	sorōrēs
Genitive	sorōris	sorōrum
Dative	sorōrī	sorōribus
Accusative	sorōrem	sorōrēs
Ablative	sorōre	sorōribus
Vocative	soror	sorōrēs

Derived terms

• sorōriō
• sorōritās
• sorōrius

Descendants

• Aromanian: sorã
• Dalmatian: saur, seraur
• Franco-Provençal: suèr (from nominative soror), seror (from accusative sorōrem)
• Friulian: sûr
• Italian: sorella, suora
• Norman: soeu
• Neapolitan: sora
• Occitan: sòrre
• Old French: suer
  • French: sœur

• Portuguese: soror
• Romanian: soră
• Romansch: sora, sour
• Sardinian: sorre, sorri
• Sicilian: soru
• Spanish: sor
• Venetian: sorela, soreła

References

• “soror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “soror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• soror in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• soror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sóror

Etymology

From Latin soror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈrɔr/
• Hyphenation: so‧ror

Noun

soror f (plural sorores)

1. sister (female member of a religious community)

Synonyms

• irmã

References

• Template:R:Priberam
• “soror”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024