Frater
/ˈfreɪtər/noun
A brother, especially in Latin and in some religious or fraternal orders.
Did you know?Latin frater comes from a Proto-Indo-European kinship root *bʰréh₂tēr, the same family line that produced words for brothers across Indo-European languages.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bʰréh₂tēr
“brother”
Latin
Latin
frāter
“brother”
Old French
OF
frere
“brother”
Middle English
ME
frater / frere
“brother; a member of a religious order”
Modern English
English
frater
“a brother; a title used in some religious or fraternal contexts”
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