fraternus
Latin
Etymology
From frāter (“brother”) + -nus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fraːˈter.nus/, [fräːˈt̪ɛrnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fraˈter.nus/, [fräˈt̪ɛrnus]
Adjective
frāternus (feminine frāterna, neuter frāternum, adverb frāternē); first/second-declension adjective
- brotherly, fraternal
- Synonym: frāternālis
- of or pertaining to a kinsman
- friendly, close
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | frāternus | frāterna | frāternum | frāternī | frāternae | frāterna | |
| Genitive | frāternī | frāternae | frāternī | frāternōrum | frāternārum | frāternōrum | |
| Dative | frāternō | frāternō | frāternīs | ||||
| Accusative | frāternum | frāternam | frāternum | frāternōs | frāternās | frāterna | |
| Ablative | frāternō | frāternā | frāternō | frāternīs | |||
| Vocative | frāterne | frāterna | frāternum | frāternī | frāternae | frāterna | |
Derived terms
- frāternālis
- frāternē
- frāternitās
Related terms
- frāter
- frāterculus
- frātricīda
- frātricīdium
- frātruēlis
Descendants
- Catalan: fratern
- Italian: fraterno
- Portuguese: fraterno
- Romanian: fratern
- Spanish: fraterno
References
- “fraternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fraternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fraternus 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)
- fraternus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette