monkish en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English monk Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English monkish From monk + -ish.
Meanings
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Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
The miser’s niece was there all right, seated on a little stool with straw in her hair and reading a monkish scroll by the light of a tallow dip.
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 66:Among the most curious, original, and lively of the monkish Latin poems, are those least in harmony with their cold ascetic discipline.
1870, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity, page 319:
- Tending to self-denial; ascetic.
Deriveds
monkishness · monkishly · unmonkish
Translations (13)
el καλογερίστικος (tending to self-denial; ascetic) · el καλογερίστικος (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · de mönchisch (tending to self-denial; ascetic) · pl mniszy (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · es frailesco (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · pl mnisi (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · it monacale (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · de mönchisch (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · es frailuno (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · es monástico (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · it fratesco (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · es monacal (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism) · es monjil (pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism)