fraternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəˈtɝnəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: more fraternal
form: most fraternal
form: fraternall
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Borrowed from Middle French fraternel, from Medieval Latin frāternālis (“fraternal”), from Latin frāternus (“of or pertaining to a brother, fraternal”), from frāter (“brother”).
Senses: examples: text: By Cognate or Domestic duties, we mean those which grow out of the different family relations; and which may be classed as conjugal, parental, filial, and fraternal.
ref: 1844, Roswell Park, Pantology; or a systematic survey of human knowledge, page 89:
text: The Bhratridvitiya, or fraternal rite of the Hindoos, is an institution of this nature, being admirably calculated to cement the natural bond of union between brothers and sisters of the same family.
ref: 1881, Shib Chunder Bose, The Hindoos as They Are: A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal:
text: Yet, in leaving, Judah removes himself not only from fraternal violence but from familial destiny as well.
ref: 1991, From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.
examples: text: The changing Afro-American class structure shaped the war and postwar growth of black religious and fraternal organizations in southern West Virginia.
ref: 1990, Joe William Trotter, Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32:
text: Ambivalence toward the larger society even permeated the Reichsbanner. the only SPD fraternal organization that, on paper at least, embraced bourgeois republican groups.
ref: 1993, Donna Harsch, German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism:
text: North and South, fraternal and sororital organizations were an integral aspect of urban culture among the mass of working-class black men and women.
ref: 2005, Robin D. G. Kelley, To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans:
text: Surfer dudes and frat dudes are simply buddies; their interaction is facilitated by the homosocial context of shared sport or fraternal membership, not the willful pursuit of gay sex.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a fraternity.
examples: text: […] a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: He took advantage of this opportunity to consider Christian liberty in its relation to the demands of fraternal charity.
ref: 1986, Henri de Lubac, The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles' Creed:
text: And when he arrives he, our Sovereign, will receive you honorably because of his Tsar's Majesty's fraternal love and friendship to him.
ref: 1994, Maija Jansson, England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614:
glosses: Platonic or friendly.
examples: text: Seventy percent of twins are fraternal and result from fertilization of two separate ova by two different sperm.
ref: 2012, Leonard Crowley, An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations, page 471:
text: Because each egg and each sperm of a fraternal zygote contain slightly different genetic material, these two embryos do not have identical genetic makeups.
ref: 2012, James Luce, Chasing Davis: An Atheist's Guide to Morality Using Logic and Science:
text: The rate of natural fraternal embryo fusion is not well documented.
ref: 2015, Sheldon Krimsky, Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers, page 120:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct.
Synonyms: brotherly
Coordinate terms: sense: relating to a brother, with regard to gender
word: sororal
sense: relating to a brother, with regard to heredity
word: paternal
sense: relating to a brother, with regard to heredity
word: maternal
Derived terms: fraternal birth order effect
fraternal birth-order effect
fraternalist
fraternalization
fraternalize
fraternally
fraternal nephew
fraternal niece
fraternal twin
interfraternal
nonfraternal
unfraternal
Related terms: frater
frater house
fraternalisation
fraternalise
fraternalism
fraternality
fraternisation
fraternise
fraternity
fratery
fratricidal
fratricide
fratry