abbas

See also: Abbas, and ABBA:s

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abəz/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

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.

Anagrams

• AABBs, babas

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin abbas (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”). Doublet of aba and abu.

Noun

abbas

1. (Catholicism) abbot

Related terms

• abi

 

Further reading

• “abbas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈab.baːs/, [ˈäbːäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.bas/, [ˈäbːäs]

Noun

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

1. an abbot

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Coordinate terms

• abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)

Related terms

• abbātia (“abbey”)
• abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)
• abbātīzō

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: abate (see there for further descendants)
  • Neapolitan: abbate
  • Sicilian: abbati
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: abà
  • Romagnol: abêt
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: abat
  • Occitan: abat
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: abá
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: abade
    • Galician: abade
    • Portuguese: abade
  • Old Spanish: abbat, abad
    • Spanish: abad (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings

• → Crimean Tatar: abbat
• → Danish: abbed
• → Finnish: apotti
• → Georgian: აბატი (abaṭi)
• → Indonesian: abbas
• → Latvian: abats
• → Lithuanian: abatas
• → Middle Dutch: abbet
  • Dutch: abt
    • Afrikaans: ab
• → Old English: abbat, abbod
  • Middle English: abbot, abbod
    • English: abbot
      • Gullah: aabut
  • → Old Norse: ábóti
    • Icelandic: ábóti
    • Norwegian: abbed
• → Old French: abbet (see there for further descendants)
• → Old High German: abbāt
  • Middle High German: abbāt
    • German: Abt
    • Luxembourgish: Abt
  • → Hungarian: apát
  • → Czech: opat
    • → Polish: opat
  • → Macedonian: опат (opat)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: опат
  • → Slovak: opát
  • → Slovene: opat
  • → Ukrainian: опат (opat)
• → Old Irish: ap (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Norse: abbati
  • Faroese: abbati
• → Old Saxon: *abbat
  • Middle Low German: abbet, abt
• → Old Swedish: abbot
  • Swedish: abbot
• → Proto-Brythonic: *abad
  • Breton: abad
  • Cornish: abas
  • Middle Welsh: abat
    • Welsh: abad
• → West Frisian: abt

References

• “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.