The story
- Latin · derived fromfrāternus“of or pertaining to a brother, fraternal”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromfrāternālis“fraternal”
- Middle French · borrowed fromfraternel
- English todayfraternal
PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Borrowed from Middle French fraternel, from Medieval Latin frāternālis (“fraternal”), from Latin frāternus (“of or pertaining to a brother, fraternal”), from frāter (“brother”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.