monastery的词源

英文词源

monastery

monastery: see monk

monastery (n.)

c. 1400, from Old French monastere "monastery" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin monasterium, from Ecclesiastical Greek monasterion "a monastery," from monazein "to live alone," from monos "alone" (see mono-). With suffix -terion "place for (doing something)." Originally applied to houses of any religious order, male or female.

中文词源

monastery：修道院，隐修院

来自希腊语monasterion,来自monos,单个的，独自的，词源同monk.-terion,表地点。即一个人住的地方，后用于指修道院，隐修院。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：monastery 词源，monastery 含义。

monastery：修道院，隐修院

圣本笃Saint Benedict本是意大利贵族，罗马求学时厌倦了世俗生活，孤身一人到深山里修行，无意中被别人发现后，很多修道之人自愿追随他左右，修道院这一事物就此产生。monas同monos，表alone，-tery表场所，修道院就是monk [mʌŋk] n.僧侣的灵修之地。