archimandrite

Borrowed from French archimandrite, from Latin archimandrīta, from late Ancient Greek ἀρχιμανδρίτης (arkhimandrítēs), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “highest”) + μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosure, cloister, monastery”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “member of”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑːkɪˈmændɹaɪt/

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archimandrite (plural archimandrites)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.
   • 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 145:

     My predecessors generally preferred to live and work in the monastery proper, but I like the solitude of the caves. I have been an archimandrite, here at Pskov, since 1915 and a humble monk for twenty years before that.

2. (Eastern Orthodoxy, rarely Catholicism) An honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʃi.mɑ̃.dʁit/

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archimandrite m (plural archimandrites)

1. archimandrite

• “archimandrite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.