klosteris

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“enclosure”), a nominal use of the neuter past participle of claudo (“to close”).

• IPA^(key): [kluostɛɾis]

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klosteris m (2nd declension)

1. monastery, cloister, convent (the building and adjacent land inhabited by an order of monks)

   iestāties klosterī ― to join a monastery

   klostera dārzs ― monastery garden

   klostera zemes ― monastery lands

   sieviešu klosteris ― women's monastery (= nunnery, convent)

   viriešu klosteris ― men's monastery

   klostera priekšnieks ― the leader of a monastery

   klostera durvju priekšā Rozāle brītiņu apstājās, lai sakārtotos pirms ieiešanas svētajā vietā ― at the door of the monastery Rozāle stopped for a moment to prepare herself before going into the holy place

• abatija

• mūks, mūķene