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Added 9 October 2026

confrere

noun

Latin root: confrāter Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about confrere at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A colleague or fellow, especially a professional one.
A fellow member of a religious organization, referring especially to Catholic religious orders of men.

Origin

From Old French confrere, from Latin confrāter. The word which was originally only used for the second sense became obsolete in the 17th century and reappeared in the mid 18th century as a re-borrowing of Modern French confrère whence the first sense is from.

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