English → Latin
“convent” in Latin
monastēriummonastery; cell; area used by a monk.coenobiummonastery, convent, cloistermŏnastērĭālismonastic, monasterialmonachusmonkmonachanun (female member of a religious community)
The English word convent itself goes back to Latin veniō, through conventus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
convent
monasterium: coenobium (Scriptores Ecclesiastici): to go into a convent, *in coetum monachorum or monacharum recipi: more Christiano cultui divino sacrari (of one who takes the vows, Ammianus Marcellinus, 18, 10, quite at the end.): of or belonging to a convent, monasterialis (late), or by genitive monachorum (monacharum), or coenobii, monasterii. The convent walls, *muri, qui coenobium, or monasterium, cingunt: the convent-rule, *lex coenobitis (or monachis) servanda: the convent-school, *scholae, in quibus a coenobitis, or a monachis, litterae traduntur; *scholae, quae in coenobio habentur.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for convent?
- The usual Latin words for “convent” are monastērium, coenobium, mŏnastērĭālis; also monachus, monacha. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.