cloître
French
Alternative forms
- cloitre (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klwatʁ/ ~ /klwɑtʁ/
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Noun
cloître m (plural cloîtres)
- cloister (part of a monastery)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “cloître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.