Monk versus friar

[ROBINDESBOIS]

what is the difference between monk and friar?

[Perikles]

what is the difference between monk and friar?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. :D

So the key difference is in the root of the name. :)

[pjt33]

That and the specifically Christian (not just RC: Anglican as well) connotation of friar, whereas you can talk of a Buddhist monk.

[chileno]

¿I guess it would be the same difference as in monje and fraile?

[pjt33]

Eso.

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Exacto, y cual es la diferencia entre monje y fraile.?

[chileno]

What Perikles and pjt33 said. :D