mynsterfæder
Old English
editEtymology
editCalque of Latin monastēriī pāter (“father of a monastery”), equivalent to mynster (“monastery”) + fæder (“father”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmynsterfæder m
- head of a monastery
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mynster-faeder”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.