frater

See also: Frater

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”).

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

  1. A monk.
  2. A frater house.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognates include Ancient Greek φρᾱ́τηρ (phrā́tēr), Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrā́tṛ) and Old English brōþor (English brother).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfraː.ter/, [ˈfraː.tɛr]

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative frāter frātrēs
genitive frātris frātrum
dative frātrī frātribus
accusative frātrem frātrēs
ablative frātre frātribus
vocative frāter frātrēs

Derived terms

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
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