coenobita

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κοινοβῑ́της (koinobī́tēs), from κοινόβιον (koinóbion) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koe̯.noˈbiː.ta/, [koe̯nɔˈbiːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.noˈbi.ta/, [t͡ʃenoˈbiːt̪ä]

Noun

coenobīta m (genitive coenobītae); first declension

1. brother, fellow monk

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coenobīta	coenobītae
Genitive	coenobītae	coenobītārum
Dative	coenobītae	coenobītīs
Accusative	coenobītam	coenobītās
Ablative	coenobītā	coenobītīs
Vocative	coenobīta	coenobītae

Related terms

• coenobium

Descendants

• → Catalan: cenobita
• → English: cenobite
• → German: Zönobit
• → Italian: cenobita
• → Polish: cenobita
• → Spanish: cenobita
• → Translingual: Coenobita

References

• “coenobita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coenobita 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)
• coenobita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.