# soror
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *swésōr
Shortening; also from Latin soror (“sister”), akin to frater from Latin frāter (“brother”).

### Noun

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

* ROROs, ro-ros

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From Latin soror.

### Noun

soror (plural sorores)
* sister

## Latin

Picture dictionary :
Network Diagram for Roman Extended Families
atavia
atavus
abavia
abavus
proavia
proavus
avia
/ ava māterna
avus māternus
avia
/ ava paterna
avus paternus
cōnsobrīna
/ mātruēlis
cōnsobrīnus
/ mātruēlis
patruēlis
patruēlis
mātertera
avunculus
amita
patruus
/ barbās
māter
pater
sobrīna
/neptis
/neptia
sobrīnus
/ nepōs
frātruēlis
/neptis
/neptia
nepōs
/frātruus
/frātruēlis
sorōrius
/marītus sorōris
soror
frāter
frātria
/ uxor frātris
socrus
socer
/patraster
socrus
socer
/patraster
soror uxōris
frāter uxōris
glōs
lēvir
uxor
/marīta
/coniunx
/nūpta
marītus
/coniunx
gener
/ fīliaster
fīlia
/ nāta
fīlius
/ nātus
nurus
/ fīliastra
prōgener
neptis
/neptia
nepōs
prōnurus
proneptis
pronepōs
abneptis
abnepōs :

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈso.ror/, [ˈs̠ɔrɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈso.ror/, [ˈsɔːror]

### Noun

soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension
* sister
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.31:Anna refert: “Ō lūce magis dīlēcta sorōrī, [...].”Anna replies: “O [Dido], more dear to [your] sister than daylight, [...].” (Anna, Dido’s beloved sister and confidant, speaks her first line in the Aeneid.)
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.599–600:Pliadās aspiciēs omnēs tōtumque sorōrum agmen, ubi ante Īdūs nox erit ūna super.You will see all the Pleiades, and the whole group of sisters, when there shall be one night remaining before the Ides. (See: Pleiades; Pleiades (Greek mythology).)
** 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.7.4:dīc sapientiae soror mea es et prūdentiam vocā amīcam tuamSay to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
* cousin, daughter of either a father's brother or of a mother's sister
* female friend
* (Christianity) sister, nun

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Antonyms

* frāter

#### Derived terms

* sororcula
* sorōriō
* sorōritās
* sorōrius

#### Descendants

* Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):
** Balkan Romance:
*** Romanian: suroră
** Dalmatian:
*** seraur
** Italo-Romance:
*** Old Italian: serore, sorore
** North Italian:
*** Istriot: sorura
*** Old Lombard: seror
**** Lombard: seror
*** Old Venetan: sorore
*** Piedmontese: sëror (Biella, Val Sesia)
** Gallo-Romance:
*** Franco-Provençal: seror
*** Old French: seror, serur
** Occitano-Romance:
*** Old Occitan: seror
**** Gascon: seror
**** → Old Spanish: seror
** Borrowings:
*** → Interlingua: soror
*** → Portuguese: soror
* Via nominative sŏror:
** Balkan Romance:
*** Romanian: sor
** Dalmatian:
*** saur
** Italo-Romance:
*** Old Italian: soro, suoro
*** Sicilian: soru
** North Italian:
*** Friulian: sûr
*** Lombard: sor
*** Old Emilian: sore
*** Old Ligurian: sor
**** Ligurian: seu
*** Old Venetan: sor
*** Old Piedmontese: suor
**** Piedmontese: seur, seure
*** Romansch: sour
** Gallo-Romance:
*** Franco-Provençal: suèr
*** Old French: suer
**** French: sœur
**** Norman: soeu
** Occitano-Romance:
*** Catalan: sor
**** → Spanish: sor
*** Occitan:
**** Auvergnat: sòrre, suerre
**** Gascon: sòr
**** Languedocien: sòrre, sòr
**** Provençal: sòrre
**** Vivaro-Alpine: sór, sòrre
** Insular Romance:
*** Sardinian: sorre (Logudorese), sorri (Campidanese)
** Borrowings:
*** → English: soror
* Via Vulgar Latin *sŏra (< sŏror):
** Balkan-Romance:
*** Aromanian: sorã
*** Megleno-Romanian: soră
*** Romanian: soră
** Italo-Romance:
*** Italian: sora, suora ⇒ sorella
*** Neapolitan: sora (dialectal plural serure < *serōrēs < sorōrēs)
** North Italian:
*** Piedmontese: seura
*** Romansch: sora
*** ⇒ Venetan: sorela, soreła
** Gallo-Romance:
*** Franco-Provençal: suèra

### References

* “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, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 115
* Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sŏror”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* sóror

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin soror.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /soˈɾoʁ/ [soˈɾoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /soˈɾoʁ/ [soˈɾoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /soˈɾoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /soˈɾoʁ/ [soˈɾoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /soˈɾoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suˈɾoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /suˈɾoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /suˈɾo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Hyphenation: so‧ror

### Noun

soror f (plural sorores)
* sister (female member of a religious community)
    Synonym: irmã

#### Related terms

* sororidade

### References

* “soror”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “soror”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025