different between greek vs cenobite

English

Etymology

Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

greek (plural greeks)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“nonsense writing or talk; gibberish”).
2. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“anal sex”).

Verb

greek (third-person singular simple present greeks, present participle greeking, simple past and past participle greeked)

1. (transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
2. (transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.

Derived terms

• greeking (noun)

Related terms

• it's all Greek to me

Anagrams

• Gerke

English

Alternative forms

• coenobite
• cœnobite (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenob?ta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from ?????? (koinós, “common”) + ???? (bíos, “life”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n??-b?t', s??n?-
• IPA^(key): /?si?n?ba?t/

Noun

cenobite (plural cenobites)

1. A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
2. A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
3. (fiction) A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.

Translations

See also

• monk
• nun
• religious

Old French

Noun

cenobite m (oblique plural cenobites, nominative singular cenobites, nominative plural cenobite)

1. cenobite (monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude)

Descendants

• ? English: cenobite
• French: cénobite