abbaye
Contents
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
abbaye (plural abbayes)
- Archaic form of abbey.
- 1795, A History and Description of the Royal Abbaye of Saint Denis, page 71:
- […] his coronation robes, &c. were deposited in the Abbaye; […]
- 1795, A History and Description of the Royal Abbaye of Saint Denis, page 71:
ReferencesEdit
- Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 2
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French abbaïe, from Old French abaïe, from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatia.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
abbaye f (plural abbayes)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “abbaye” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French abaïe, from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatia.
NounEdit
abbaye f (plural abbayes)