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frater

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”).

NounEdit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

fratêr (plural frater-frater, first-person possessive fraterku, second-person possessive fratermu, third-person possessive fraternya)

  1. (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

  1. brother
  2. friend, lover
  3. sibling
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative frāter frātrēs
Genitive frātris frātrum
Dative frātrī frātribus
Accusative frātrem frātrēs
Ablative frātre frātribus
Vocative frāter frātrēs

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