sororius

== Latin == === Etymology === From soror (“sister”) +‎ -ius (“-ly: forming adjectives of belonging”). Cf. uxorius (“wifely”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɔˈroː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [soˈrɔː.ri.us] === Adjective === sorōrius (feminine sorōria, neuter sorōrium); first/second-declension adjective sisterly ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Noun === sorōrius m (genitive sorōriī or sorōrī); second declension brother-in-law (sister's husband) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “sororius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sororius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "sororius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “sororius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.