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English
Etymology
From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
monastic (comparative more monastic, superlative most monastic)
- Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
new monastic people
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 344:“Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to monasteries or monks
- Armenian: վանական (hy) (vanakan)
- Asturian: monásticu, monacal
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: монашески (bg) (monašeski)
- Catalan: monàstic (ca), monacal
- Czech: mnišský (cs)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: monastiek (nl), kloosterlijk (nl), kloosterachtig
- Esperanto: monaĥa
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: luostari-, luostarimainen (monastery), munkki-, munkkimainen (monk)
- French: monastique (fr)
- Friulian: monastic, monacâl
- Galician: monástico, monacal
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: mönchisch (de), klösterlich (de)
- Greek: μοναστικός (el) (monastikós), μοναχικός (el) (monachikós)
- Hebrew: פרוש (he) m (paruš)
- Hungarian: szerzetesi (hu), monasztikus
- Italian: monastico (it), monacale (it), fratesco m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: мо́нашки (mónaški), калу́ѓерски (kalúǵerski), мана́стирски (manástirski)
- Occitan: monastic (oc)
- Polish: monastyczny (pl), mnisi (pl)
- Portuguese: monacal (pt), monástico (pt)
- Romanian: monastic (ro)
- Russian: мона́шеский (ru) (monášeskij), монасты́рский (ru) (monastýrskij)
- Slovak: mníšsky
- Spanish: monástico (es), monacal (es), monjil, frailuno (es)
- Swedish: kloster- (monastery), munk- (monk)
- Tocharian B: ṣamāññe
- Ukrainian: черне́чий m (černéčyj) (of a monk), черне́цький (černécʹkyj) (of a monk), черни́чий (černýčyj) (of a nun)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Noun
monastic (plural monastics)
- A person with monastic ways; a monk.
Translations
person with monastic ways
Friulian
Adjective
monastic
- monastic
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French monastique.
Adjective
monastic m or n (feminine singular monastică, masculine plural monastici, feminine and neuter plural monastice)
- monastic
Declension
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