archimandrite

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French archimandrite, from Latin archimandrīta, from late Ancient Greek ἀρχιμανδρίτης (arkhimandrítēs), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “highest”) + μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosure, cloister, monastery”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “member of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑːkɪˈmændɹaɪt/

Noun

archimandrite (plural archimandrites)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.
   • 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 145:

     My predecessors generally preferred to live and work in the monastery proper, but I like the solitude of the caves. I have been an archimandrite, here at Pskov, since 1915 and a humble monk for twenty years before that.

2. (Eastern Orthodoxy, rarely Catholicism) An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest.

Derived terms

• archimandrital

 

Translations

The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church

• Bulgarian: архимандрит (bg) m (arhimandrit)
• Finnish: arkkimandriitta (fi)
• French: archimandrite (fr) m
• Galician: arquimandrita m
• Georgian: არქიმანდრიტი m (arkimandriṭi)
• German: Archimandrit (de) m
• Greek: αρχιμανδρίτης (el) m (archimandrítis)
• Hungarian: arkimandrita
• Italian: archimandrita (it) m
• Japanese: 掌院 (しょういん, shōin)
• Latin: archimandrita m
• Macedonian: архимандрит m (arhimandrit)
• Polish: archimandryta (pl) m
• Portuguese: arquimandrita m
• Romanian: arhimandrit (ro) m
• Russian: архимандри́т (ru) m (arximandrít)
• Serbo-Croatian: arhimandrit (sh) m, episkop (sh) m
• Spanish: archimandrita m
• Swedish: arkimandrit (sv)
• Ukrainian: архімандрит (uk) m (arximandryt)

An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest

• Polish: archimandryta (pl) m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃi.mɑ̃.dʁit/

• Audio:

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Noun

archimandrite m (plural archimandrites)

1. archimandrite

Further reading

• “archimandrite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.