cenobite
/ˈsɛn.əˌbaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites."
- "To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place."
Etymology
From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: cenobite, coenobīta, κοινόβιον