cloistre

English

Noun

cloistre (plural cloistres)

1. Obsolete form of cloister.

Anagrams

• citolers, cloister, coistrel, cortiles, costlier, creolist, sterolic

French

Noun

cloistre m (plural cloistres)

1. Archaic spelling of cloître.
   • 1601, Pierre Charron, De la sagesse, praeface:

     […] j’ay respondu que je ne formois icy ou instruisois un homme pour le cloistre, mais pour le monde, la vie commune et civile […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cloister, closter, cloystre, cloyster, clostre, cloistir, cleystir, cloysture

Etymology

From Old French cloistre, from Medieval Latin claustrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔi̯stər/, /ˈklɔːstər/

Noun

cloistre

1. A monastery or cloister; a place where a monastic lifestyle is practiced.
2. A cloister (roofed path, especially at a monastic complex)
3. That which is cloistered; a confined location.
4. (figurative, rare) The uterus as a protective location.

Derived terms

• cloystrer, cloysterer

Descendants

• English: cloister
• Scots: closter (< closter)

References

• “cloistre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cloistre.

Noun

cloistre m (plural cloistres)

1. cloister
   • a. 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:

     Metrodorus vivoit du pois de douze onces par jour, Epicurus à moins; Metroclez dormoit en hyver avec les moutons, en esté aux cloistres des Eglises.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• French: cloître, cloitre (post-1990 spelling)
  • → Russian: клуа́тр (kluátr)
  • → Ukrainian: клуа́тр (kluátr)

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”).

Noun

cloistre oblique singular, m (oblique plural cloistres, nominative singular cloistres, nominative plural cloistre)

1. cloister
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, De l'Estat du Monde:

     L'en ne preesche més en cloistre

     He no longer preaches in the cloister

Descendants

• Middle French: cloistre
  • French: cloître, cloitre (post-1990 spelling)
    • → Russian: клуа́тр (kluátr)
    • → Ukrainian: клуа́тр (kluátr)
• → Middle English: cloistre, cloister, closter, cloystre, cloyster, clostre, cloistir, cleystir, cloysture
  • English: cloister
  • Scots: closter (< closter)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cloistre, supplement)
• “cloître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.