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名詞

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.

アナグラム

• ROROs, ro-ros

語源

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

発音

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

名詞

soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension

1. sister
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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, Ovidius, 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).)

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, 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

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

反意語

• frāter

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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, 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), volume 12: Sk–š, page 115
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sŏror”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610