fratery
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin frater (“brother”) + -y. Compare Italian frateria (“a brotherhood of monks”). See friar.
Noun edit
fratery (plural frateries)
- A frater house; an apartment in a convent used as a dining room.
References edit
- “fratery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.