# frater
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *bʰréh₂tēr
Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, friar, pal, and vai.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

frater (plural fraters)
* A monk.
* A frater house.
* A comrade.

#### Derived terms

* frater house
* fratery
* fratress

#### Related terms

* fraternal
* fraternity

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Rafter, farter, rafter

## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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 bruder.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fratər/
* Hyphenation: fra‧têr

### Noun

fratêr (plural frater-frater)
* (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood

#### Related terms

* padri
* pastor

### 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

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension
* brother
    Synonym: germānus
    Coordinate term: soror
* male friend, lover
* sibling
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: frati, frate
** Istro-Romanian: fråte
** Romanian: frate
* Dalmatian:
** frutro
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: frate
*** → English: fra
** Neapolitan: frate
** Sicilian: frati
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: frade
* North Italian:
** Friulian: fradi
** Istriot: fra
** Old Piedmontese: frère, frer
*** Gallo-Italic of Sicily: frær
** Old Ligurian: frae
*** Ligurian: fræ, frai
** Lombard: frar
** Romansch: frar
** Venetan: frade, brade (influenced by germanic)
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: frâre
** Old French: frere (see there for further descendants)
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: frare
** Old Occitan: fraire (see there for further descendants)
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: frade
*** Galician: frade
*** Portuguese: frade
** Old Spanish: fradre, frade (early)
* Borrowings:
** →? Albanian: frat
** → Dutch: frater (learned)
*** → Indonesian: frater
** → English: frater (learned)
** → German: Frater (learned)

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