abbatia

Latin

Etymology

Derived from the oblique stem abbāt- of abbās (“abbot”) +‎ -ia (nominal derivational suffix).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈbaː.ti.a/, [äbˈbäːt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈbat.t͡si.a/, [äbˈbät̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

abbātia f (genitive abbātiae); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. abbacy
2. abbey
3. the body of abbots
4. the estates and revenues pertaining to an abbey or abbacy; the territory governed by an abbey
5. a chapter of canons or other non-monastic institution led by an abbot
6. a non-cathedral church in an episcopal city

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abbātia	abbātiae
Genitive	abbātiae	abbātiārum
Dative	abbātiae	abbātiīs
Accusative	abbātiam	abbātiās
Ablative	abbātiā	abbātiīs
Vocative	abbātia	abbātiae

Descendants

Most descendants reflect an alternative form abbātīa with penultimate stress.

• Asturian: abadía
• Catalan: abadia
• Italian: abbazia, badia
  • → Romanian: abație
• Old French: abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe
  • French: abbaye
  • → Middle English: abbey
    • English: abbey
  • Norman: abbaye
• Old Occitan: abadia
  • Occitan: abadiá
• Old Galician-Portuguese: abadia
  • Galician: abadía
  • Portuguese: abadia
• Sicilian: batìa
• Spanish: abadía
  • → Basque: abadia
• → Proto-West Germanic: *abbadejā (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: abbacja (learned)
• → Serbo-Croatian: opatija
• → Slovene: opatija

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈbaː.ti.aː/, [äbˈbäːt̪iäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈbat.t͡si.a/, [äbˈbät̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

abbātiā f

1. ablative singular of abbātia

References

• abbatia 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)
• abbatia in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “abbatia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “abbatia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1–3