sŏror (noun F) : Sanscr. svasar; Goth. svister; Germ. Schwester; Engl. sister.
* Lit.
* In gen., a sister: Th. Salve, mea soror. Pl. Frater mi, salve, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 57; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 68 sq.: germana soror, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.); cf.: mea soror gemina germana,Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 30 sq.; so, germana,Cic. Mil. 27, 73: Jovis,i. e. Juno,Verg. A. 1, 47; Hor. C. 3, 3, 64; Ov. M. 3, 266; id. F. 6, 27 al.: Phoebi,i. e. Luna,id. H. 11, 45; cf. id. F. 3, 110: agnam Aeneas matri Eumenidum magnaeque sorori ferit,i. e. to Nox and Terra,Verg. A. 6, 250: doctae,i. e. the Muses,Tib. 3, 4, 45; Ov. M. 5, 255; called also sorores novem,id. Tr. 5, 12, 45: genitae Nocte,i. e. the Furies,id. M. 4, 451; called also crinitae angue sorores,id. ib. 10, 349; and, vipereae,id. ib. 6, 662: tristes,i. e. the Fates,Tib. 3, 3, 35; called also sorores tres,Prop. 2, 13, 44 (3, 5, 28); Hor. C. 2, 3, 15; Ov. M. 15, 808.—Of beasts: in grege prioris anni sororem equa comitatur,Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 156.—Prov.: bonae mentis soror est paupertas,Petr. 84, 4.
* Transf. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* A cousin, the daughter of a father's brother, Ov. M. 1, 351.
* A female friend, playmate, or companion, Verg. A. 1, 321; 11, 823; Tib. 3, 1, 26; Sen. Hippol. 611; Petr. 127; Mart. 2, 4, 3; 12, 20, 2; Inscr. Marin. Iscriz. Alb. p. 60.—In eccl. Lat.,female Christians,Vulg. 1, Tim. 5, 2.
* Of things in pairs, connected together, or alike: obsecro te hanc per dexteram Perque hanc sororem laevam,Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 9; so of the hand,Verg. M. 28: abjunctae comae mea fata sorores Lugebant,Cat. 66, 51: sapore caryotarum sorores,Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 45; Mart. 14, 128, 2.
* Of the word soror: scripta soror fuerat: visum est delere sororem,Ov. M. 9, 528.