abbas
English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editabbas
- plural of abba
- (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.
Anagrams
editIndonesian
editNoun
editabbas
- (Catholicism) alternative spelling of abas (“abbot”)
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἀββα, ἀββᾶς (abba, abbâs, “father or abbot”), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈab.baːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈab.bas]
Noun
editabbās m (genitive abbātis, feminine abbātissa); third declension
- an abbot
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | abbās | abbātēs |
genitive | abbātis | abbātum |
dative | abbātī | abbātibus |
accusative | abbātem | abbātēs |
ablative | abbāte | abbātibus |
vocative | abbās | abbātēs |
Coordinate terms
edit- abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Italo-Dalmatian
- 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)
See also
editReferences
edit- “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.
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