abbas

See also: Abbas and ABBA:s

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abəz/

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Noun

abbas

1. plural of abba

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 Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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.

Case	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.