Frater definition

frātər
A brother or comrade, esp. as in a fraternity.
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The definition of a frater is a brother in a fraternity.

An example of a frater is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

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A frater house.
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A monk.
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(obs.) A friar.
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(obs.) The eating room, or refectory, in a monastery.
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Noun

Singular:
frater
Plural:
fraters

Origin of frater

  • Latin, a brother.

    From Wiktionary

Frater Sentence Examples

  • This has been mostly rebuilt, and but little now remains except ruins of some of the towers, a great part of the monks' dormitory and frater, and the splendid cloister, completed about 1200.

  • Neither side had been careful to observe the terms of the treaty of 1547; the Turkish pashas in Hungary had raided Ferdinand's dominions, while Ferdinand had been negotiating with Frater GeOrgy (see Martinuzzi) with a view to freeing Transylvania from the Ottoman suzerainty.

  • In etymology he endeavoured to find a Roman explanation of words where possible (according to him frater was =fere alter).

  • Simon's history, in its original form, is lost; but large sections of it have been preserved in Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum historiale, where nineteen chapters are expressly said to be ex libello fratris Simonis, or entitled frater Simon.

  • During the last six years (1534-1540) of John's reign, his kingdom, beneath the guidance of the Paulician monk, Frater Gyorgy, or George Martinuzzi, the last great statesman of old Hungary, enjoyed a stability and prosperity marvellous in the difficult circumstances of the period, Martinuzzi holding the balance exactly between the emperor and the Porte with 3 I was kept secret for some years for fear of Turkish intervention.

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