- monastery
[monastery 词源字典]
- monastery: see monk
[monastery etymology, monastery origin, 英语词源] - monastery (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French monastere "monastery" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin monasterium, from Ecclesiastical Greek monasterion "a monastery," from monazein "to live alone," from monos "alone" (see mono-). With suffix -terion "place for (doing something)." Originally applied to houses of any religious order, male or female.