The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀρχιμανδρίτης
- Latin · derived fromarchimandrīta
- French · borrowed fromarchimandrite
- English todayarchimandrite
Borrowed from French archimandrite, from Latin archimandrīta, from late Ancient Greek ἀρχιμανδρίτης (arkhimandrítēs), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “highest”) + μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosure, cloister, monastery”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “member of”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.