confraternitas

Latin

Etymology

con- +‎ frāternitās

Noun

confrāternitās f (genitive confrāternitātis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) brotherliness, fraternity, spiritual kinship
2. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) a confraternity, guild, brotherhood
3. (Medieval Latin) privileges of membership in a confraternity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	confrāternitās	confrāternitātēs
genitive	confrāternitātis	confrāternitātum
dative	confrāternitātī	confrāternitātibus
accusative	confrāternitātem	confrāternitātēs
ablative	confrāternitāte	confrāternitātibus
vocative	confrāternitās	confrāternitātēs

Derived terms

• archiconfrāternitās

References

• confraternitas in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “confraternitas”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC