Sororal
/səˈrɔːrəl/noun
Relating to a sister or sisters.
Did you know?Sororal and fraternal are paired legal and genealogical terms, but *sororal* ultimately descends from the Latin word *soror*, which also gave English the rare noun *sorority*.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*swésōr
“sister”
Latin
Latin
soror
“sister”
Late Latin
Latin
sorōrālis
“of a sister; sisterly”
15th–16th Century
English
sororal
“pertaining to a sister”
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