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Monk versus friar
what is the difference between monk and friar?
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Monk: (from the Greek monos = alone) A member of a community of men living apart from the world under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Friar: (from Latin frater, brother) A brother or member of any religious Roman Catholic order, usually one of the 4 mendicant orders of Franciscans, Augustines, Dominicans and Carmelites. Also several kinds of fish, and a few birds. So the key difference is in the root of the name. |
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That and the specifically Christian (not just RC: Anglican as well) connotation of friar, whereas you can talk of a Buddhist monk.
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¿I guess it would be the same difference as in monje and fraile?
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Eso.
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Exacto, y cual es la diferencia entre monje y fraile.?
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What Perikles and pjt33 said.
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