coenobium

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin coenobium (“cloister, convent; monastery”), from Koine Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “life in community; monastery”), the neuter form of κοινόβιος (koinóbios, “communal living”), from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”). Doublet of coenoby. The plural form coenobia is borrowed from Late Latin coenobia. === Pronunciation === Singular: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /siːˈnəʊ.bɪ.əm/ (General American) IPA(key): /siˈnoʊ.bi.əm/ Hyphenation: coe‧no‧bi‧um Plural (coenobia): (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /siːˈnəʊ.bɪ.ə/ (General American) IPA(key): /siˈnoʊ.bi.ə/ Hyphenation: coe‧no‧bia === Noun === coenobium (plural coenobiums or coenobia) A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery. Synonyms: cenoby, coenoby (by extension) (botany) A fruit of a plant from either of the families Boraginaceae (the borages) or Lamiaceae which has small loculi or compartments, reminiscent of the cells in a convent or monastery. (botany) A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a coenobe. (zoology) A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism. ==== Alternative forms ==== caenobium (rare) cenobium cœnobium (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== coenobial, cœnobial coenobian, cœnobian coenobiar, cœnobiar coenobioid, cœnobioid ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== slime mold === References === === Further reading === cenobitic monasticism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Latin == === Etymology === From Koine Greek κοινόβῐον (koinóbĭon, “life in community; monastery”), a neuter form of Ancient Greek κοινόβιος (koinóbios, “communal living”), from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *-yós (root forming adjectives)) + βίος (bíos, “life”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [koe̯ˈnɔ.bi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈnɔː.bi.um] === Noun === coenobium n (genitive coenobiī or coenobī); second declension monastery, convent, cloister ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Italian: cenobio → English: coenobium === References === “coenŏbĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "coenobium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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