monasterium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /mo.nasˈteː.ri.um/, [mɔnäs̠ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mo.nasˈte.ri.um/, [monäsˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun
monastērium n (genitive monastēriī or monastērī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) monastery
- c. 731 CE, Bede, Historia ecclesiastica 2.1:
- Nam mutato repente habitu saeculari monasterium petiit, in quo tanta perfectionis gratia coepit conuersari, ut, sicut ipse postea flendo solebat adtestari, animo illius labentia cuncta subteressent, ut rebus omnibus, quae uoluuntur, emineret, ut nulla nisi caelestia cogitare soleret, ut etiam retentus corpore ipsa iam carnis claustra contemplatione transiret, ut mortem quoque, quae pene cunctis poena est, uidelicet ut ingressum uitae, et laboris sui praemium amaret.
- For soon quitting his secular habit, he repaired to a monastery, wherein he began to behave himself with so much grace of perfection that (as he was afterwards wont with tears to testify) his mind was above all transitory things; that he despised all that is subject to change; that he used to think of nothing but what was heavenly; that whilst detained by the body, he by contemplation broke through the bonds of flesh; and that he loved death, which is a terror to almost all men, as the entrance into life, and the reward of his labours.
- Nam mutato repente habitu saeculari monasterium petiit, in quo tanta perfectionis gratia coepit conuersari, ut, sicut ipse postea flendo solebat adtestari, animo illius labentia cuncta subteressent, ut rebus omnibus, quae uoluuntur, emineret, ut nulla nisi caelestia cogitare soleret, ut etiam retentus corpore ipsa iam carnis claustra contemplatione transiret, ut mortem quoque, quae pene cunctis poena est, uidelicet ut ingressum uitae, et laboris sui praemium amaret.
- (Medieval Latin) cell; area used by a monk.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | monastērium | monastēria |
Genitive | monastēriī monastērī1 |
monastēriōrum |
Dative | monastēriō | monastēriīs |
Accusative | monastērium | monastēria |
Ablative | monastēriō | monastēriīs |
Vocative | monastērium | monastēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- Albanian: manastir, munështir
- Asturian: monasteriu
- Basque: monasterio
- Catalan: monestir
- English: monastery, minster
- French: monastère, moutier
- Galician: mosteiro
- German: Münster
- Italian: monastero
- Norman: monastéthe
- Old French: mostier
- Portuguese: monastério, mosteiro
- Romanian: mânăstire, mănăstire
- Sardinian: moristene, muristere
- Spanish: monasterio
- Venetian: monastier, monistier, monestier
References
- “monasterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- monasterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.