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6-letter words (2 found)

FRATER,RAFTER,

5-letter words (9 found)

AFTER,ARRET,FARER,FEART,FRATE,RATER,TARRE,TERRA,TREFA,

4-letter words (19 found)

ARET,FARE,FART,FATE,FEAR,FEAT,FETA,FRAE,FRAT,FRET,RAFT,RARE,RATE,REAR,REFT,TARE,TEAR,TERF,TREF,

3-letter words (25 found)

AFT,ARE,ARF,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,EFT,ERA,ERF,ERR,ETA,FAE,FAR,FAT,FER,FET,FRA,RAT,REF,RET,TAE,TAR,TEA,TEF,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AR,AT,EA,EF,ER,ET,FA,FE,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 68 words from frater according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of frater

frater

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, friar, and pal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

  1. A monk.
  2. A frater house.
  3. A comrade.

Derived terms

  • frater house
  • fratery

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(key): /ˈfraːtər/

Noun

frater m (plural fraters, diminutive fratertje n)

  1. 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(key): /fratər/
  • Hyphenation: fra‧têr

Noun

fratêr (first-person possessive fraterku, second-person possessive fratermu, third-person possessive fraternya)

  1. (Catholicism) a candidate for priesthood

Related terms

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 Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

frāter m (genitive frātris); third declension

  1. brother
    Synonym: germānus
    Antonym: soror
  2. male friend, lover
  3. sibling
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • confrāter
  • frāter cōnsanguineus
  • frāterculus
  • frāternālis
  • frāternē
  • frāternitās
  • frāternus
  • frāter uterīnus
  • frātricīda
  • frātricīdium
  • frātruēlis
  • Ūnitās Frātrum

Descendants

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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