fraternal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /fɹəˈtɝnəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A society formed to provide mutual aid, such as insurance.
    — Here comes in the importance of the proposed bill for the uniform regulation of fraternals.
  2. A fraternal twin.
    — Her twins were adorable boy-girl fraternals who wore boy-girl clothes in the same fabric.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.
    — By Cognate or Domestic duties, we mean those which grow out of the different family relations; and which may be classed as conjugal, parental, filial, and fraternal.
  2. Of or pertaining to a fraternity.
    — The changing Afro-American class structure shaped the war and postwar growth of black religious and fraternal organizations in southern West Virginia.
  3. Platonic or friendly.
    — […] a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
  4. Of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct.
    — Seventy percent of twins are fraternal and result from fertilization of two separate ova by two different sperm.

词形变化

more fraternal comparative most fraternal superlative fraternall alternative fraternals plural fraternall alternative

词汇关系

近义词
brotherly
衍生词
fraternal birth order effect fraternal birth-order effect fraternalism fraternalist fraternalization fraternalize fraternally fraternal nephew fraternal niece fraternal twin interfraternal nonfraternal unfraternal
相关词
frater frater house fraternalisation fraternalise fraternality fraternisation fraternise fraternity fratery fratricidal fratricide fratry

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr
Borrowed from Middle French fraternel, from Medieval Latin frāternālis (“fraternal”), from Latin frāternus (“of or pertaining to a brother, fraternal”), from frāter (“brother”).
词源 2
PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr
Borrowed from Middle French fraternel, from Medieval Latin frāternālis (“fraternal”), from Latin frāternus (“of or pertaining to a brother, fraternal”), from frāter (“brother”).
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