The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκοινόβιον“community life, convent”
- Ecclesiastical Latin · derived fromcoenobīta
- Old French · derived fromcenobite
- English todaycenobite
From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.