coenobium

Learned borrowing from Latin coenobium (“monastery, convent, cloister”), from the Koine Greek κοινόβῐον (koinóbion, “life in community, monastery”), from κοινόβιος (koinóbios, “communal living”), from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)

coenobium (plural coenobiums or coenobia)

1. (biology) An arranged colony of algae that acts as a single organism.
2. Alternative spelling of cenobium (“monastic community”)

• coenobian

• slime mold

From Koine Greek κοινόβῐον (koinóbion, “life in community”, “monastery”), from κοινός (koinós, “common, shared”) + βίος (bíos, “life”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koe̯ˈno.bi.um/, [koe̯ˈnɔ.bi.ũː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛˈno.bi.um/, [t͡ʃɛˈnoː.bi.um]

coenobium n (genitive coenobiī or coenobī); second declension

1. monastery, convent, cloister

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• coenŏbĭum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coenobium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cœnŏbĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 333/3
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “coenobium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 164–165