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I think the base word you're looking for here is not frater but rather fraternus, brotherly.
Fraternitas is simply the state of being brotherly. The -n- isn't part of the ending *-nitas,
but rather is part of the stem, fraterno-.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=fraternity&searchmode=none
Padraic
--- On Fri, 2/1/13, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote:
From: thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email>
Subject: [romconlang] What would be your suggestions for a pure French word meaning 'fraternitée'?
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, February 1, 2013, 8:17 AM
A direct translation would start in 'frère', because it is the French word for brother, but '-nitée' might be a loan suffix. Else I would have chosen 'frèritée'. If Latin never had been a written language, romance languages would have much more such straight forward forms, like those I am looking for. They could also be used in far away countries, which early lost contact to the Roman Empire.
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