different between hermit vs monastic

English

Alternative forms

• eremite, heremit, heremite (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ???????? (er?mít?s, “person of the desert”) from ?????? (er?mía, “desert, solitude”), from ?????? (ér?mos) or ?????? (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -???? (-ít?s, “one connected to, a member of”). Displaced native Old English ?nsetla.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?m?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?t
• Hyphenation: her?mit

Noun

hermit (plural hermits)

1. A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

   Synonyms: anchorite, eremite

2. A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:recluse

3. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
4. A hermit crab.
   • 2016, Vicki Judah, Kathy Nuttall, Exotic Animal Care and Management (page 279)

     Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs.

5. A hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• monachos
• monk

Anagrams

• mither

English

Alternative forms

• monastick

Etymology

From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??næst?k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k

Adjective

monastic (comparative more monastic, superlative most monastic)

1. Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

Derived terms

• semimonastic

Related terms

• monastery
• monasticism
• monk

Translations

Noun

monastic (plural monastics)

1. A person with monastic ways; a monk.

Translations

Friulian

Adjective

monastic

1. monastic

Romanian

Etymology

From French monastique

Adjective

monastic m or n (feminine singular monastic?, masculine plural monastici, feminine and neuter plural monastice)

1. monastic

Declension

Further reading

• monastic in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)