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means A male sibling, or by extension a man you treat as one through bond, faith, or shared cause.
from One of the deep bedrock words of English, from Old English 'brōþor,' tracing back through Proto-Germanic '*brōþēr' to the Proto-Indo-European root '*bʰréh₂tēr.' It's a word so ancient and so essential that its cousins turn up almost everywhere: Latin 'frater' (hence 'fraternity'), Greek 'phratēr,' Sanskrit 'bhrātar.' Few words have survived so unchanged across so many thousand years of human family squabbles.
- word origin
- from Proto-Indo-European bhrater, one of language's oldest words
- animal kin
- male lions form lifelong coalitions to rule prides
- birth order
- younger brothers statistically take more physical risks
- galaxy far away
- Wright brothers, Coen brothers, Mario and Luigi
- chemistry
- siblings share roughly fifty percent of their DNA
cain and abel — biblical brothers, first human murder when cain killed abel out of jealousy
wright brothers — orville and wilbur wright, invented the airplane at kitty hawk in 1903
marx brothers — groucho, chico, harpo, zeppo—comedy team that made 13 films from 1929-1949