cloître

See also: cloitre, cloitré, and cloîtré

French

Alternative forms

• cloitre (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French cloistre, from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klwatʁ/, /klwɑtʁ/

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Noun

cloître m (plural cloîtres)

1. cloister (part of a monastery)

Descendants

• → Russian: клуа́тр (kluátr)
• → Ukrainian: клуа́тр (kluátr)

Further reading

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