sororidad
Spanish
Etymology
From Renaissance Late Latin sorōritās, from Latin soror (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Akin to Portuguese sororidade, French sororité, English sorority.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soɾoɾiˈdad/ [so.ɾo.ɾiˈð̞að̞]
- Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: so‧ro‧ri‧dad
Noun
sororidad f (plural sororidades)
- (feminism) sisterhood (the idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors)
- (US) sorority
- a female fraternity; a sisterhood (a fraternal group composed exclusively of females)
- a social organization of female students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters
Coordinate terms
- fraternidad
Related terms
- sor
See also
- hermandad
Further reading
- “sororidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014