confrairia
Old Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval Latin confratria. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French confrairie.
Noun
[edit]confrairia f (oblique plural confrairias, nominative singular confrairia, nominative plural confrairias)
- brotherhood (association of male members)
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frater”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 766