sister

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
2. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
5. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
6. (slang) A black woman.
7. (informal) A form of address to a woman.
8. A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
9. An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
10. A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. Something in the same class.

Verb

1. To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
2. (obsolete) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

Conceptos

hermana

hermano

sor

la hermana

hermana mayor

filial

sucursal

familia

familia extensa

parentesco

enfermera

compañero

hermana de una mujer

hermano de un hombre

hermana de ella

hermana de la hermana

hermana de la mujer

hermana de él

hermana del hermano

hermana del hombre

hermana del varón

hermana menor

monja

sobrino

sobrina

Con guión como

sis‧ter

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/

Etimología (Inglés)

PIE word
*swésōr
From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.

Oraciones

She and her sister Victoire were the first two Congolese women parachutists .

Ella y su hermana Victoire fueron las dos primeras paracaidistas congoleñas.