Quote:
Originally posted by AGDee
And, we were taught the reasoning for us being a Fraternity is that the word Sorority is Latin based, but the word Fraternity is Greek based. Since we are a Greek Letter Organization, then it made sense to use the Greek based term. When I look up each on dictionary.com though, it says fraternity is based on Middle English and sorority is based on Latin.
|
As far as I know, in Greek,
adelfh - "adelphay" is sister and
adelfon - "adelphon" is brother.
In Latin, "frater" is brother and "soror" (or "amita" - but that has some other connotation that I can't remember) is sister.
Anyone, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.