See also: Abbas and ABBA:s

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /abəz/
  • Audio (Canada):(file)

Noun

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abbas

  1. plural of abba
  2. (obsolete) abbot
    • 1607, Iohn Cowell, editor, The Interpreter: or Booke Containing the Signification of Words[1], Cambridge: Iohn Legate, page 18:
      Abbot (Abbas) in French Abbè [abbé] [] him that in the convent or fellowſhip of Canons hath the rule and preheminence.

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Indonesian

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Noun

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abbas

  1. (Catholicism) alternative spelling of abas (abbot)

Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἀββα, ἀββᾶς (abba, abbâs, father or abbot), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, father).

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Noun

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abbās m (genitive abbātis, feminine abbātissa); third declension

  1. an abbot

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative abbās abbātēs
genitive abbātis abbātum
dative abbātī abbātibus
accusative abbātem abbātēs
ablative abbāte abbātibus
vocative abbās abbātēs

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Descendants

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  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Italian: abate (see there for further descendants)
    • Neapolitan: abbate
    • Sicilian: abbati
  • Padanian:
  • Old Occitan:
  • West Iberian
  • Crimean Tatar: abbat
  • Indonesian: abbas
  • Latvian: abats
  • Lithuanian: abatas
  • Middle Dutch: abbet
    • Dutch: abt (see there for further descendants)
  • Old English: abbod, abbad, abbud (see there for further descendants)
  • Old French: abbe (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Frisian: abbit (see there for further descendants)
  • Old High German: abbāt (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Irish: ap (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Saxon: *abbat (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Brythonic: *abad (see there for further descendants)

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References

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  • abbas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "abbas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • abbas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.