frater
/ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/noun
frater is a noun meaning “A monk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-T-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frater is fraters.
What does frater mean?
noun
- 1
A monk.
- 2
A frater house.
- 3
A comrade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frater?
- /ˈfreɪtə(ɹ)/
Frater has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frater.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frater
- fraters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frater?
Frater appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does frater come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, friar, pal, and vai.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).