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.
实用例句
1. Shall we apply to fraternal factories for help?
我们是否应要求兄弟厂支援?
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2. He said he hoped the issue could be solved in a fraternal way.
他表示希望这个问题能以友好的方式解决。
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3. Fraternal love, sometimes almost everything , is at others worse than nothing.
骨肉之间的爱有时是胜过一切.有时是一文不值.
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4. We should learn from the people of all the fraternal countries.
我们应当向所有兄弟国家的人民学习.
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5. Their social and fraternal ends are sometimes worthy of note as well.
