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PAN-ROMANCE WORDS OF SECULAR VOCABULARY WITH A RELIGIOUS MEANING: LAT. FRATER Abstract Frater (fratre, frate) stands as one of the Pan-Romance terms that displayed both secular and religious meanings in examples dating back in Latin and later, in the Proto-Romance stage. This study offers the appropriate framework to highlight certain discontinuities within the Romance area, which have been identified and analyzed with respect to both formal and semantic dimensions.
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