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archimandrite

/ˌɑːkɪˈmændɹaɪt/noun

archimandrite is a noun meaning “The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-C-H-I-M-A-N-D-R-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of archimandrite is archimandrites.

What does archimandrite mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.

  2. 2

    rareAn honorary title sometimes given to a monastic priest.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce archimandrite?

  • /ˌɑːkɪˈmændɹaɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-archimandrite.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of archimandrite

  • archimandrites plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is archimandrite?

Archimandrite appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Archimandrite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Chur:

LanguageWords
Frencharchimandrite
GermanArchimandrit
Portuguesearquimandrita
Spanisharchimandrita

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does archimandrite come from?

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”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).