soror

English

Etymology

PIE word
*swésōr

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

Noun

soror (plural sorors)

(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

ROROs, ro-ros

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin soror.

Noun

soror (plural sorores)

sister

Latin

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soror

soror uxōris

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.rɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.ror]

Noun

soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension

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)
cousin, daughter of either a father's brother or of a mother's sister
female friend
(Christianity) sister, nun

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Antonyms

frāter

Derived terms

Descendants

Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):

Balkano-Romance:
- Romanian: suroră
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: seraur
- Istriot: sorura
- Old Italian: sorore, serore
- Old Venetan: sorore
Gallo-Italic:
- Old Lombard: seror
  - Lombard: seror
- Piedmontese: sëror (Biella, Val Sesia)
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: seror
- Old French: seror, serur
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Occitan: seror
  - Gascon: seror
  - → Old Spanish: seror
Borrowings:
- → Interlingua: soror
- → Portuguese: soror

Via nominative soror:

Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: sorre (Logudorese), sorri (Campidanese)
Balkano-Romance:
- Romanian: sor
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: saur
- Old Italian: soro, suoro, sere
- Old Venetan: sor
- Sicilian: soru
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: sûr
- Romansch: sour
Gallo-Italic:
- Lombard: sor
- Old Emilian: sore
- Old Ligurian: sor
  - Ligurian: seu
- Old Piedmontese: suor
  - Piedmontese: seur, seure
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: suèr
- Old French: suer
  - French: sœur
  - Norman: soeu
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: sor
  - → Spanish: sor
- Occitan:
  - Auvergnat: sòrre, suerre
  - Gascon: sòr
  - Languedocien: sòrre, sòr
  - Provençal: sòrre
  - Vivaro-Alpine: sór, sòrre
Borrowings:
- → English: soror

Via nominative Vulgar Latin *sora (< soror):

Balkano-Romance:
- Aromanian: sorã
- Megleno-Romanian: soră
- Romanian: soră
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: sora, suora, ⇒ sorella
- Neapolitan: sora (dialectal plural serure < *serōrēs < sorōrēs)
- ⇒ Venetan: sorela, soreła
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: sora
Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: seura
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: suèra

References

“soror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“soror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"soror", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“soror”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sŏror”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 12: Sk–š, page 115
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sŏror”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

sóror

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin soror.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈɾoʁ/ [soˈɾoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /soˈɾoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /soˈɾoʁ/ [soˈɾoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈɾoɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /suˈɾoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /suˈɾo.ɾi/

Rhymes: -oɾ
Hyphenation: so‧ror

Noun

soror f (plural sorores)

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

Related terms

sororidade

References

“soror”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
“soror”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
“soror”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025