soror

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

• ROROs, ro-ros

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin soror.

Noun

soror (plural sorores)

1. sister

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ror/, [ˈs̠ɔrɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ror/, [ˈsɔːror]

Noun

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

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	soror	sorōrēs
Genitive	sorōris	sorōrum
Dative	sorōrī	sorōribus
Accusative	sorōrem	sorōrēs
Ablative	sorōre	sorōribus
Vocative	soror	sorōrēs

Antonyms

• frāter

Derived terms

• sororcula
• sorōriō
• sorōritās
• sorōrius

 

Descendants

• Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: suroră
  • Dalmatian:
    • seraur
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Old Italian: serore, sorore
  • North Italian:
    • Istriot: sorura
    • Old Lombard: seror
      • Lombard: seror
    • Old Venetian: sorore
    • Piedmontese: sëror (Biella, Val Sesia)
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: seror
    • Old French: seror, serur
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Occitan: seror
      • Gascon: seror
      • → Old Spanish: seror
  • Borrowings:
    • → Interlingua: soror
    • → Portuguese: soror
• Via nominative sŏror:
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: sor
  • Dalmatian:
    • saur
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Old Italian: soro, suoro
    • Sicilian: soru
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: sûr
    • Lombard: sor
    • Old Emilian: sore
    • Old Ligurian: sor
      • Ligurian: seu
    • Old Venetian: sor
    • Old Piedmontese: suor
      • Piedmontese: seur, seure
    • Romansch: sour
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: suèr
    • Old French: suer
      • French: sœur
      • Norman: soeu
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: sor
      • → Spanish: sor
    • Occitan:
      • Auvergnat: sòrre, suerre
      • Gascon: sòr
      • Languedocien: sòrre, sòr
      • Provençal: sòrre
      • Vivaro-Alpine: sór, sòrre
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: sorre (Logudorese), sorri (Campidanese)
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: soror
• Via Vulgar Latin *sŏra (< sŏror):
  • Balkan-Romance:
    • Aromanian: sorã
    • Megleno-Romanian: soră
    • Romanian: soră
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: suora ⇒ sorella
    • Neapolitan: sora (dialectal plural serure < *serōrēs < sorōrēs)
  • North Italian:
    • Piedmontese: seura
    • Romansch: sora
    • ⇒ Venetian: sorela, soreła
  • 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 (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 115
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sŏror”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sóror

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin soror.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈɾoʁ/ [soˈɾoh]

• (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/

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

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: so‧ror

Noun

soror f (plural sorores)

1. sister (female member of a religious community)

   Synonym: irmã

Related terms

• sororidade

References

• “soror” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “soror” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.