monasteryyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[monastery 词源字典]
monastery: see monk
[monastery etymology, monastery origin, 英语词源]
monastery (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1400, from Old French monastere "monastery" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin monasterium, from Ecclesiastical Greek monasterion "a monastery," from monazein "to live alone," from monos "alone" (see mono-). With suffix -terion "place for (doing something)." Originally applied to houses of any religious order, male or female.