frate
See also: fråte
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian frate. Doublet of friar.
Noun edit
frate (plural frati)
- A friar.
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Etymology edit
From Latin frāter, frātrem. Compare Romanian frate.
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frate m
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin frāter, from Proto-Italic *frātēr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
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Noun edit
frate m (plural frati)
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- → English: fra
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Neapolitan edit
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frate m (plural frate)
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 13: “tuo fratello; i tuoi fratelli” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “frate”, in Schedario Napoletano
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Late Latin fratre (810-814 AD or earlier), from Latin frāter, either directly from the nominative form or through a Vulgar Latin derivative of the accusative frātrem (with loss of second -r from a form *fratre), from Proto-Italic *frātēr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Compare Aromanian frati.
Pronunciation edit
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frate m (plural frați)
- brother
- (colloquial) dude
- Frate, e bună!
- Dude, she's hot!
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Declension of frate
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