fraternitas
Latin
Etymology
From frāternus (“brotherly”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fraːˈter.ni.taːs/, [fräːˈt̪ɛrnɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fraˈter.ni.tas/, [fräˈt̪ɛrnit̪äs]
Noun
frāternitās f (genitive frāternitātis); third declension
- brotherhood
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | frāternitās | frāternitātēs |
| Genitive | frāternitātis | frāternitātum |
| Dative | frāternitātī | frāternitātibus |
| Accusative | frāternitātem | frāternitātēs |
| Ablative | frāternitāte | frāternitātibus |
| Vocative | frāternitās | frāternitātēs |
Derived terms
- confrāternitās
Related terms
- frāter
- frāterculus
- frāternē
- frāternus
- frātricīda
- frātricīdium
- frātruēlis
Descendants
- Catalan: fraternitat
- English: fraternity
- French: fraternité
- Galician: fraternidade
- Italian: fraternità
- Portuguese: fraternidade
- Romanian: fraternitate
- Spanish: fraternidad
References
- “fraternitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fraternitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fraternitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fraternitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette