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frater
1[ frey-ter ]
noun
- a brother, as in a religious or fraternal order; comrade.
- a member of a college or university fraternity.
frater
2[ frey-ter ]
noun
, Ecclesiastical History Obsolete.
- the refectory of a religious house.
frater
1/ ˈfreɪtə /
noun
- a mendicant friar or a lay brother in a monastery or priory
frater
2/ ˈfreɪtə /
noun
- archaic.a refectory
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of frater1
C16: from Latin: brother
Origin of frater2
C13: from Old French fraiteur , aphetic variant of refreitor , from Late Latin rēfectōrium refectory
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Example Sentences
Uncle Jack was not much of a scholar, but he knew enough Latin to answer, "Salve tantundem, mi frater."
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Praefectus praesidii Tarentini deperibat amore mulierculae, cuius frater in exercitu Fabii erat.
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In the first of these letters Seneca hopes his brother Paul is well: "Bene te valere, frater, cupio."
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The refectory, sometimes called the fratry or frater-house, was the common hall for all conventual meals.
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Ecce, ego idcirco vocavi te, frater carissime, ut exemplo mei talia discas operari.
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