Noun: frater
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like frater
vaatwasmachine,
hekkensluiter,
urinoir,
whiskey,
internetsite,
internetcafé,
bestemoer,
besteller,
renovatie,
stokstaartje,
benzinestation,
kruipklokje,
bodybuildster,
scharminkel,
vrijbuiter,
server,
serval,
sessie,
seider,
selfie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From older fryter, frijter. Likely onomatopoeic. A connection to Latin frāter (“brother”) has also been suggested (religious implications; compare to another bird name, paapje), as well as to Latin fritinniō (“to chirp”) and Middle Dutch writen (“to turn, twist”). See: Latin Nouns '
frāter', Latin Nouns '
fritinniō'.
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