frater
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”).
NounEdit
frater (plural fraters)
- A monk.
- A frater house.
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
AnagramsEdit
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch frater, from Latin frater, from Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fratêr (plural frater-frater, first-person possessive fraterku, second-person possessive fratermu, third-person possessive fraternya)
- (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “frater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension
- brother
- friend, lover
- sibling
- (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 |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Albanian: (religious) frat
- Aromanian: frati, frate
- Catalan: frare; frari, flare, flari, fraire (via Occitan)
- Corsican: frateddu
- Dalmatian: frutro
- → English: frater
- Franco-Provençal: frâre
- Old French: fradre, fredre, frere
- Friulian: fradi
- Galician: frade, frei
- Istriot: fra
- Istro-Romanian: fråte
- Italian: fratello, frate
- → English: fra
- Norman: fréthe
- Neapolitan: fràte
- Occitan: fraire
- Old Portuguese: frade, freire (via Old Occitan), freira
- Portuguese: frade, freire (via Old Occitan), frei, freira
- Proto-Romanian: *fratre
- Romanian: frate
- Romansch: frar
- Sardinian: fràde
- Sicilian: frati, frateddu
- Spanish: fraile, fray
- Venetian: fradel, fradelo
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
- remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)