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confrere

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con⋅frere

  [kon-frair]
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–noun
a fellow member of a fraternity, profession, etc.; colleague: my confreres in the medical profession.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME < MF < ML confrāter colleague, equiv. to L con- con- + frāter brother
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con·frere   (kŏn'frâr')   
n.  A fellow member of a fraternity or profession; a colleague.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cōnfrāter : Latin com-, com- + Latin frāter, brother; see bhrāter- in Indo-European roots.]
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