cloîtrer
French, verb
cloîtrer is spelled C-L-O-Î-T-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cloîtrer is a French verb meaning “to cloister (confine to a cloister)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, cloitrer is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of cloîtrer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire entrer quelqu’un dans un cloître, un monastère”.
What does cloîtrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cloister (confine to a cloister)
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of cloîtrer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire entrer quelqu’un dans un cloitre, un monastère. 2. S’enfermer chez soi, se retirer.
verb: 1. Faire entrer quelqu’un dans un cloître, un monastère. 2. Enfermer dans un lieu au mode de vie austère. 3. S’enfermer chez soi ; se retirer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cloîtrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cloîtrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cloîtré participle past
- cloître first-person indicative present
- cloîtres indicative present second-person
- cloîtrons first-person indicative plural
- cloîtrez indicative plural present
- cloîtrent indicative plural present
- cloîtrais first-person imperfect indicative
- cloîtrait imperfect indicative singular
- cloîtrions first-person imperfect indicative
- cloîtriez imperfect indicative plural
- cloîtraient imperfect indicative plural
- cloîtrai first-person historic indicative
- cloîtras historic indicative past
- cloîtra historic indicative past
- cloîtrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cloîtrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cloîtrer in French?
cloîtrer appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).