frater

See also: Frater

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”). Doublet of friar and brother.

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

1. A monk.
2. A frater house.
3. A comrade.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• Rafter, farter, rafter

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch frater, from Latin frater, from Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of bruder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fratər/
• Hyphenation: fra‧têr

Noun

fratêr (plural, 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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfraː.ter/, [ˈfɾäːt̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ter/, [ˈfɾɑːt̪ɛr]

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

1. brother
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

Synonyms

• (brother): germānus

Derived terms

• confrāter
• frāterculus
• frāternālis
• frāternē
• frāternitās

• frāternus
• frātricīda
• frātricīdium
• frātruēlis
• Ūnitās Frātrum

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: frati, frate
  • Istro-Romanian: fråte
  • Romanian: frate
• Franco-Provençal: frâre
• Gallo-Italic
  • Ligurian: fra
  • Piedmontese: frà
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: frateddu
  • Dalmatian: frutro
  • Istriot: fra
  • Italian: fratello
  • Italian: frate
    • → English: fra
  • Neapolitan: fràte
  • Sicilian: frati, frateddu
• Old French: frere, fradre, fredre
  • Middle French: frere
    • French: frère
  • Norman: frère (Guernsey), fréthe (Jersey)
  • → Middle English: frere, ffrere, ffreere, freere, frer, fryere, ffryr, frir, ffryre
    • English: friar
    • Scots: freer (archaic)
• Old Occitan: fraire
  • Catalan: frare
  • Occitan: fraire
  • → Old Portuguese: freire, freira
    • Portuguese: freire, frei, freira
    • Galician: frei
  • → Spanish: fraile, fray
  • →? Venetian: frar
    • → Cimbrian: fraar
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: fradi
  • Romansch: frar
• Sardinian: fràde
• Venetian: frate
• Old Portuguese: frade
  • Galician: frade
  • Portuguese: frade
• → Albanian: frat
• → Dutch: frater
  • → Indonesian: frater
• → English: frater
• → German: Frater

References

• frater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• frater in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• frater in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
  • remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)