coenobium

See also: cœnobium

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin coenobium (“monastery, convent, cloister”), from the Koine Greek κοινόβῐον (koinóbion, “life in community, monastery”), from κοινόβιος (koinóbios, “communal living”), from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)

Noun

coenobium (plural coenobiums or coenobia)

(biology) An arranged colony of algae that acts as a single organism; coenobe
Alternative spelling of cenobium (“monastic community”)

Related terms

coenobial, coenobian / coenobiar
coenobioid

Latin

Etymology

From Koine Greek κοινόβῐον (koinóbion, “life in community”, “monastery”), from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /koe̯ˈno.bi.um/, [koe̯ˈnɔbiʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈno.bi.um/, [t͡ʃeˈnɔːbium]

Noun

coenobium n (genitive coenobiī or coenobī); second declension

monastery, convent, cloister

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coenobium	coenobia
Genitive	coenobiī coenobī¹	coenobiōrum
Dative	coenobiō	coenobiīs
Accusative	coenobium	coenobia
Ablative	coenobiō	coenobiīs
Vocative	coenobium	coenobia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

archicoenobium
coenobiālis
coenobiāliter
coenobiarcha
coenobiolum
coenobīta
coenobītālis
coenobītē
coenobīticus

References

“coenŏbĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
coenobium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
cœnŏbĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 333/3
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “coenobium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 164–165