soru
Maltese
/ˈsɔːrʊ/
noun
Definitions
- (Christianity) a nun, sister (in this sense)
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian soru derived from Latin soror (sister).
Origin
Latin
soror
Gloss
sister
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Soroptimist English
- sororize English
- soror Latin
- sororicida Latin
- sororicidium Latin
- sororitas Latin
- sorōritās Latin
- sorella Italian
- suora Italian
- sor Spanish, Castilian
- *swésōr Proto-Indo-European
- soror Portuguese
- suer Old French
- soră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sorã Aromanian
- sòrre Occitan
- *swezōr Proto-Italic
- sora Romansh
- sour Romansh
- sûr Friulian
- soru Sicilian
- soreła Venetian
- saur Dalmatian
- seraul Dalmatian
- sorre Sardinian
- sora Neapolitan
- soror Interlingua
- suèr Franco-Provençal