μοναστήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Substantivization of the adjective μοναστήριος (monastḗrios), from μονάζω (monázō, “to be alone”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.nas.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mo.nasˈte̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mo.nasˈti.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mo.nasˈti.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mo.nasˈti.ri.on/
Noun
μοναστήριον • (monastḗrion) n (genitive μοναστηρίου); second declension
- solitary dwelling, hermit's cell
- Philo Mechanicus 2.475
- monastery
- Inscriptiones Graecae 8729 al.
Declension
Second declension of τὸ μοναστήριον; τοῦ μοναστηρίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μοναστήριον tò monastḗrion | τὼ μοναστηρίω tṑ monastēríō | τᾰ̀ μοναστήριᾰ tà monastḗria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μοναστηρίου toû monastēríou | τοῖν μοναστηρίοιν toîn monastēríoin | τῶν μοναστηρίων tôn monastēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μοναστηρίῳ tôi monastēríōi | τοῖν μοναστηρίοιν toîn monastēríoin | τοῖς μοναστηρίοις toîs monastēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μοναστήριον tò monastḗrion | τὼ μοναστηρίω tṑ monastēríō | τᾰ̀ μοναστήριᾰ tà monastḗria | ||||||||||
Vocative | μοναστήριον monastḗrion | μοναστηρίω monastēríō | μοναστήριᾰ monastḗria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: μοναστήρι (monastíri)
- Aromanian: mãnãstir
- Romanian: mânăstire, mănăstire
- Russian: монасты́рь (monastýrʹ)
- → Turkish: manastır
- Latin: monasterium
- → Arabic: منستر (munastīr)
- → Catalan: monestir
- → Aragonese: monesterio
- → Asturian: monasteriu
- → French: monastère
- → Italian: monastero
- → Norman: monastéthe (Jersey)
- Late Latin: monastērium
- Vulgar Latin: monistērium
- Old French: mostier
- Middle French: moustier
- French: moutier
- Middle French: moustier
- Old Portuguese: mõesteiro
- Galician: mosteiro
- Portuguese: mosteiro
- Old French: mostier
- Vulgar Latin: monistērium
- → Occitan: monastèri
- → Portuguese: monastério
- → Spanish: monasterio
- → Old English: mynster
- English: minster
- → Arabic: منستر (munastīr)
Further reading
- “μοναστήριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press