frater

See also: Frater

English

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

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

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

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

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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 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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

1. brother

   Synonym: germānus

   Antonym: soror

2. male 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
• frātruus
• Ūnitās Frātrum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: frati, frate
  • Istro-Romanian: fråte
  • Romanian: frate
• Dalmatian:
  • frutro
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: frate
    • → English: fra
  • Neapolitan: frate
  • Sicilian: frati
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: frade
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: fradi
  • Istriot: fra
  • Old Piedmontese: frère, frer
    • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: frær
  • Old Ligurian: frae
    • Ligurian: fræ, frai
  • Lombard: frar
  • Romansch: frar
  • Venetian: frade, brade (influenced by germanic)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: frâre
  • Old French: frere (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: frare
  • Old Occitan: fraire (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frade
    • 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)