different between frater vs sistren

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frater (“brother”). Doublet of friar and brother.

Noun

frater (plural fraters)

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

Anagrams

• Rafter, farter, rafter

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch frater, from Latin frater, from Proto-Italic *fr?t?r, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r. Doublet of bruder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frat?r/
• 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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fr?t?r, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fra?.ter/, [?f?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fra.ter/, [?f???t??r]

Noun

fr?ter m (genitive fr?tris); third declension

1. brother
2. friend, lover
3. sibling
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) brother, brethren; member of a religious community

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (brother): germ?nus

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• 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.

English

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• sistern

Noun

sistren

1. (archaic) plural of sister
   • 1570 March 13. Will of David Tyrry Fitz Edmonde:

     My wyfe to have my dwelling house during her widowhood, that is to say, the hall, the parlor, and the small seller: to my sistren Catheryn and Ellen Tyrry their grinding in my myll during their lives, paying noo toll nor multhe money.

   • 2003 April 16 (airdate). Angel (TV series), episode "The Magic Bullet"

     LORNE: Blessings and moon pies, brethren and sistren!

Usage notes

• This form died out around the sixteenth century. Since then, it has been most often used jocularly together with brethren, as in “brethren and sistren”.

Noun

sistren (plural sistrens)

1. (Rastafari) A close female friend, family member, or comrade.

Coordinate terms

• bredrin

Anagrams

• Inserts, Stiners, Strines, estrins, inserts, sestrin, sinters, sistern

Middle English

Noun

sistren

1. Alternative form of sustren (plural of suster)