fraternal: [15] Etymologically as well as semantically, fraternal is ‘brotherly’. It comes from frāternālis, a medieval Latin derivative of Latin frāter ‘brother’. This goes back to the same prehistoric Indo-European source, *bhrāter, as produced English brother. The Latin accusative from, frātrem, produced French frère ‘brother’, from which English gets friar [13]. => brother, friar, pal
fraternal (adj.)
early 15c., from Old French fraternel "brotherly, fraternal," and directly from Medieval Latin fraternalis, from Latin fraternus "friendly, closely allied," literally "brotherly" (see fraternity). The noun meaning "fraternal twin" is recorded by 1911.
雙語例句
1. Shall we apply to fraternal factories for help?
我們是否應要求兄弟廠支援?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. He said he hoped the issue could be solved in a fraternal way.
他表示希望這個問題能以友好的方式解決。
來自辭典例句
3. Fraternal love, sometimes almost everything , is at others worse than nothing.
骨肉之間的愛有時是勝過一切.有時是一文不值.
來自辭典例句
4. We should learn from the people of all the fraternal countries.
我們應當向所有兄弟國家的人民學習.
來自辭典例句
5. Their social and fraternal ends are sometimes worthy of note as well.