cloister

• n. 回廊；修道院；修道生活；庵
• vt.世間から隔離する；回廊で囲む

語源はcloseと同じ。修道士が修行する場所の秘密性から名付けられた。

cloister

cloister: [13] A cloister was originally simply an enclosed place, a ‘close’. The word comes from Old French cloistre, a descendant of Latin claustrum ‘bar, bolt, enclosure’, which was formed from the past participial stem of Latin claudere ‘close’ (source of English close). The notion of ‘enclosure’ led to the word’s being applied to a place of religious seclusion, such as a monastery or convent, and hence to a covered walkway within a monastic building. It also lies behind claustrophobia [19], which was formed from Latin claustrum.
=> claustrophobia, close

cloister (n.)

early 13c., from Old French cloistre "monastery, convent; enclosure" (12c., Modern French clo?tre), from Medieval Latin claustrum "portion of monastery closed off to laity," from Latin claustrum (usually in plural, claustra) "place shut in, enclosure; bar, bolt, means of shutting in," from past participle stem of claudere (see close (v.)).

"The original purpose of cloisters was to afford a place in which the monks could take exercise and recreation" [Century Dictionary]. Spelling in French influenced by cloison "partition." Old English had clustor, clauster in the sense "prison, lock, barrier," directly from Latin, and compare, from the same source, Dutch klooster, German Kloster, Polish klasztor.

cloister (v.)

c. 1400 (implied in cloistered), from cloister (n.). Figurative use from c. 1600. Related: Cloistered; cloistering.

1. They went out into the still，shadowy cloister garden.

彼らは部屋を出て、その静かで暗い修道院の庭に行った。

2.The following day，this person encountered tickler，go begging avalokitesvara in cloister .

翌日、この人は難事にぶつかったので、寺に観音を求めに行った。

3.The cloister linked the most important elements of an abbey together.

大修道院は最も主要な建物を回廊で結んでいる。

4.You may still long for cloister ，but learn this lesson first.

過去に戻ることを望んでも、まず学生を学ばなければならない。

5.A photograph of the Pingnan Cloister Garden.

この3枚の図は、平南カトリックの修道院の花園です。