soror
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening; also from Latin soror (“sister”), akin to frater from Latin frāter (“brother”).
Noun edit
soror (plural sorors)
- (colloquial) A sorority sister; a fellow member of one's sorority.
- 2002, Cheryl Fall, Family Reunion Planning Kit for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc.:
- Gathering your fraters and sorors / If you were a member of a fraternity or sorority in college, gather your old fraters (brothers) and sorors (sisters) for a reunion.
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
soror (plural sorores)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈso.ror/, [ˈs̠ɔrɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.ror/, [ˈsɔːror]
Noun edit
soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension
- sister
- cousin, daughter of either a father's brother or of a mother's sister
- female friend
- (Christianity) sister, nun
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | soror | sorōrēs |
Genitive | sorōris | sorōrum |
Dative | sorōrī | sorōribus |
Accusative | sorōrem | sorōrēs |
Ablative | sorōre | sorōribus |
Vocative | soror | sorōrēs |
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Descendants edit
- Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: suroră
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- Balkan Romance:
- Via nominative sŏror:
- Via Vulgar Latin *sŏra (< sŏror):
References edit
- “soror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “soror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- soror in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- soror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŏror”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 115
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sŏror”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin soror.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Hyphenation: so‧ror
Noun edit
soror f (plural sorores)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “soror” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “soror” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.