frater
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English
Etymology
| PIE word |
|---|
| *bʰréh₂tēr |
Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, friar, pal, and vai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
frater (plural fraters)
- A monk.
- A frater house.
- A comrade.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “frater”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From older fryter, frijter. Likely onomatopoeic. A connection to Latin frāter (“brother”) has also been suggested (religious implications; compare to another bird name, paapje), as well as to Latin fritinniō (“to chirp”) and Middle Dutch writen (“to turn, twist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfraːtər/
Audio: (file)
Noun
frater m (plural fraters, diminutive fratertje n)
- a twite (Linaria flavirostris, syn. Carduelis flavirostris)
Further reading
frater (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch frater, from Latin frāter, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of brudel and bruder.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈfratər/ [ˈfra.t̪ər]
- Rhymes: -atər
- Syllabification: fra‧ter
Noun
fratêr (plural frater-frater)
- (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood
Related terms
Further reading
- “frater”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Latin
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Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *frātēr,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfraː.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfraː.ter]
Noun
frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension
- brother
- male friend, lover
- sibling
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | frāter | frātrēs |
| genitive | frātris | frātrum |
| dative | frātrī | frātribus |
| accusative | frātrem | frātrēs |
| ablative | frātre | frātribus |
| vocative | frāter | frātrēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: frade
- Balkano-Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “frāter, -tris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 239-240
Further reading
- “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)