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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Dutch
Linaria flavirostris

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfraːtər/
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Noun

frater m (plural fraters, diminutive fratertje n)

  1. The twite, Linaria flavirostris syn. Carduelis flavirostris

Further reading

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

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: frati, frate
    • Istro-Romanian: fråte
    • Romanian: frate
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: frâre, frâr
    • Old French: frere (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: frare
    • Old Occitan: fraire (see there for further descendants)
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
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