soror

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English

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Etymology

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Shortening; also from Latin soror (“sister”), akin to frater from Latin frāter (“brother”).

Noun

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soror (plural sorors)

  1. (colloquial) A sorority sister; a fellow member of one's sorority.
    • 2002, Cheryl Fall, Family Reunion Planning Kit for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc.:
      Gathering your fraters and sorors / If you were a member of a fraternity or sorority in college, gather your old fraters (brothers) and sorors (sisters) for a reunion.

Anagrams

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Interlingua

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Etymology

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From Latin soror.

Noun

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soror (plural sorores)

  1. sister

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension

  1. sister
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.31:
      Anna refert: “Ō lūce magis dīlēcta sorōrī, [...].”
      Anna replies: “O [Dido], more dear to [your] sister than daylight, [...].”
      (Anna, Dido’s beloved sister and confidant, speaks her first line in the Aeneid.)
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.599–600:
      Pliadās aspiciēs omnēs tōtumque sorōrum
      agmen, ubi ante Īdūs nox erit ūna super.
      You will see all the Pleiades, and the whole group of sisters, when there shall be one night remaining before the Ides.
      (See: Pleiades; Pleiades (Greek mythology).)
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.7.4:
      dīc sapientiae soror mea es et prūdentiam vocā amīcam tuam
      Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend.
      (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
  2. cousin, daughter of either a father's brother or of a mother's sister
  3. female friend
  4. (Christianity) sister, nun

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative soror sorōrēs
genitive sorōris sorōrum
dative sorōrī sorōribus
accusative sorōrem sorōrēs
ablative sorōre sorōribus
vocative soror sorōrēs

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):
    • Balkan Romance:
      • Romanian: suroră
    • Dalmatian:
    • Italo-Romance:
    • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitano-Romance:
    • Borrowings:
  • Via nominative sŏror:
  • Via Vulgar Latin *sŏra (< sŏror):

References

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin soror.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Hyphenation: so‧ror

Noun

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soror f (plural sorores)

  1. sister (female member of a religious community)
    Synonym: irmã
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