English → Latin
“brotherhood” in Latin
frāternitāsbrotherhoodgermānitāsbrotherhood, sisterhood, relationship between siblings; affinity, similarity, resemblancesodālitāsclose association, fellowship, brotherhood; an association, club, society; a groupcollēgiumcolleagueship, (connection of associates, colleagues, etc.); guild, corporation, company, society, college (concrete defcorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptiblgenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type, class; species (general classification, as of living things), taxon (of aninātiōbirth; nation, people; race, class
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
brotherhood
fraternitas, necessitudo fraterna, germanitas (fraternal connection): sodalitas, sodalitium (companionship, etc.): sodalitas, collegium, corpus (fraternity, association): genus, natio (race, set).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for brotherhood?
- The usual Latin words for “brotherhood” are frāternitās, germānitās, sodālitās; also collēgium, corpus, genus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.