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• cloistre (obsolete)

語源

Recorded since about 1300 as 中期英語 cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via 古期英語 clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈklɔɪstə/
• (米国発音) enPR: kloiʹstər, IPA: /ˈklɔɪstɚ/
• 韻: -ɔɪstə(ɹ)

名詞

cloister (plural cloisters)

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
   1. such an arcade in a monastery;
   2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
2. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3. (figuratively) The monastic life.

派生語

関連する語

• claustrum
• claustral
• claustrophobia

動詞

cloister (third-person singular simple present cloisters, present participle cloistering, simple past and past participle cloistered)

1. (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
2. (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
3. (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
4. (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

   The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.

5. (transitive) To protect or isolate.
   • 1983 April 9, “Beacon Hill: Mt Vernon St. (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

     Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.

同意語

• (become a Catholic religious) enter religion

派生語

• cloistered
• uncloister

関連する語

• claustration

参考

• abbey
• hermitage
• monastery
• nunnery

アナグラム

• citolers, cloistre, coistrel, cortiles, costlier, creolist, sterolic