From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.

• IPA: /məˈnæstɪk/

monastic

1. Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

   new monastic people

   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC ↗, page 344 ↗:

     “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”

• monastery
• monasticism
• monk

• French: monastique
• German: mönchisch, klösterlich
• Italian: monastico, monacale, fratesco
• Portuguese: monacal, monástico
• Russian: мона́шеский
• Spanish: monástico, monacal, monjil, frailuno

monastic (plural monastics)

1. A person with monastic ways; a monk.