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Originally Posted by Drolefille
As MysticCat mentioned, these students took Latin and would be aware of sororitas as the word for sisterhood. What if another derivation had been used for those little sister groups? Hmm. We need a historian!
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Indeed. While I have no doubt that the Syracuse professor suggested the term "sorority" to the fledging Gamma Phi Betas, I think it quite unlikely, given that
fraternity, from Latin
fraternitas, had been in the English lexicon for centuries, that professor was the first English speaker to anglicize
sororitas.
I have a research project.
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