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noun
The leader of a cenobium: an abbot, a guru.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: often
Qualifier: chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Simplification of coenobiarch, from Latin coenobiarcha (“abbot”), from Koine Greek κοινοβιάρχης (koinobiárkhēs, “abbot”), from κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “cenobium, monastery”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”) + -ης (-ēs).
