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Encyclopedia Britannica



SISTER

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 160 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SISTER , the correlative of brother (q.v.), a
female
  in her relation to the other children born of the same parents, also one who has acquired such relationship by
marriage
 , a sister-in-law, or by adoption. The O. Eng. word was sweostor; cf. Dutch zuster, Ger. Schwester, Goth. swistar; in M. Eng. this appears as suster; the Scandinavian form appears in Icel. systir, Swed. systor, Dan. systor, and this has curiously taken the
place
  of the true
English
  form suster. Outside Teut. are found Lat. soror for sosor, Skt. svasti; the origin is not known, but it may be related with Skt. svasti, happiness, joy. The Lat. consobrinus, which has given "
cousin
 ," is from con-sobrinus, sosbrinus, from the
stem
  of soror, sister. As " brother " and " brethren " are used for the male members of a religious
body
  or community, so also is " sister " for the
female
  members; more particularly it is applied to the members of a female religious order or community, a " sisterhood," in the Roman and other churches, who are de-voted to a religious
life
 , works of charity or mercy, whether bound by irrevocable vows or not.


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