English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”). Doublet of brother.
Noun
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch frater, from Latin frater, from Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
Pronunciation
Noun
fratêr (first-person possessive fraterku, second-person possessive fratermu, third-person possessive fraternya)
- (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood
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Further reading
- “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.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfraː.ter/, [ˈfräːt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfra.ter/, [ˈfräːt̪er]
Noun
frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension
- brother
- 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 |
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Descendants
References
- “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)
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