sister

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

sœur

soeur

frère

nonne

infirmière

religieuse

soeur d’une femme

son frère

soeur cadette

sœur cadette

sis

réligieuse

filiale

succursale

infirmière-major

bonne soeur

famille

famille élargie

parenté

infirmière-chef

soeur d’un homme

sa soeur

frère d’un homme

aînée

soeur ainée

sœur aînée

beau-parent

amie

bébé

nourrisson

confrère

bonne sœur

moniale

nonnain

religieux

frangine

neveu

nièce

soeur aînée

Coupé comme

sis‧ter

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

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

Elle et sa sœur Victoire ont été les deux premières femmes parachutistes congolaises.