frater

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Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, friar, and pal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

frater (plural fraters)

1. A monk.
2. A frater house.
3. A comrade.

• frater house
• fratery

• fraternal
• fraternity

• “frater”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Rafter, farter, rafter

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfraːtər/

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frater m (plural fraters, diminutive fratertje n)

1. a twite (Linaria flavirostris, syn. Carduelis flavirostris)

• frater (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from Dutch frater, from Latin frāter, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of bruder.

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

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

1. (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood

• “frater” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfraː.ter/, [ˈfräːt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ter/, [ˈfräːt̪er]

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

1. brother

   Synonym: germānus

   Coordinate term: soror

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

Third-declension noun.

• confrāter
• frātellus
• frāter cōnsanguineus
• frāterculus
• frāternālis
• frāternē
• frāternitās
• frāternus
• frāter uterīnus
• frātricīda
• frātricīdium
• frātruēlis
• frātruus
• Ūnitās Frātrum

• “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)