sodality

US /soʊˈdæləti/ UK /səˈdæləti/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
a fellowship, association, or religious confraternity

He joined a sodality devoted to charitable works.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a fellowship, association,... fellowship brotherhood confraternity association fraternity guild society

Etymology

From Latin sodālitās ('fellowship, association, comradeship'), from sodālis ('companion, comrade, member of a society').

sodālitās Latin sodālis Latin

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# sodality

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /soʊˈdæləti/
**IPA (UK):** /səˈdæləti/

## Meanings
1. a fellowship, association, or religious confraternity

## Examples
- He joined a sodality devoted to charitable works.

## Synonyms
- fellowship
- brotherhood
- confraternity
- association
- fraternity
- guild
- society

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: sodālitās
- Root: sodālis

## Etymology
From Latin sodālitās ('fellowship, association, comradeship'), from sodālis ('companion, comrade, member of a society').

## AI Etymology
Sodality comes from Latin sodālitās ('fellowship, association, comradeship'), from sodālis ('companion, comrade, member of a society'). The historical chain includes Latin sodālitās and Latin sodālis. Older glosses in the chain include "fellowship, association, comradeship" and "companion, comrade, member of a society", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, sodality is best read as borrowing, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "a fellowship, association, or religious confraternity". The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Abstract Ideas
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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