sororal

Learned borrowing from Latin soror (“sister”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).^[1][2]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɔːɹ(ə)l/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɔɹəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
• Hyphenation: so‧ror‧al

sororal (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterlike, sisterly.

   Synonym: sororial

   Antonyms: nonsororal, unsisterlike, unsisterly

   Coordinate terms: avuncular, filial, fraternal, grandfilial, grandmaternal, grandparental, grandpaternal, (of a husband, obsolete) marital, maternal, materteral, nepotal, parental, paternal, uxorial

2. (archaic) Related through a sister. [from mid 17th c.]

   sororal nephew

• sister on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• sororel

From Latin soror (“sister”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ʁɔ.ʁal/

• Audio:

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sororal (feminine sororale, masculine plural sororaux, feminine plural sororales)

1. (rare) sororal

• “sororal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /soɾoˈɾal/ [so.ɾoˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: so‧ro‧ral

sororal m or f (masculine and feminine plural sororales)

1. sororal

• “sororal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024