FRATRES, fratres
Sounds Like: FRAH-trehs
Translations: brothers, brethren
From the root: FRATER
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the plural form of 'FRATER', meaning 'brother'. It refers to male siblings, but can also be used more broadly to address or refer to members of a group, community, or religious order, similar to 'brethren' in English. It is commonly used in religious texts to address fellow believers.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Instances
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 11:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, FRATER.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- FRATER — brother, a brother
- FRATERNITAS — brotherhood, fraternity, brotherly love
- FRATREM — brother, a brother
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