abbot

English

Etymology

• From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abbās (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbas), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”). Compare abba, abbé.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈæb.ət/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈæb.ət/

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• Rhymes: -æbət

Noun

abbot (plural abbots)

1. The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. [First attested around the early 12^th century.]

   The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.

2. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.

Translations

superior or head of an abbey or monastery

• Arabic: رئيس الدير (ar) (Rʼiys ad-Dyr)
• Basque: abade (eu)
• Breton: abad m, ebed / abaded pl
• Bulgarian: игумен (bg) (igumen)
• Catalan: abat
• Cornish: abas (kw) m
• Crimean Tatar: abbat
• Czech: opat (cs) m
• Danish: abbed (da)
• Dutch: abt (nl)
• Esperanto: abato (eo)
• Faroese: abbati (fo) m
• Finnish: apotti (fi)
• French: abbé (fr) m
• Galician: abade m
• German: Abt (de) m
• Greek: ηγούμενος (el) (igoúmenos)
• Hungarian: apát (hu)
• Icelandic: ábóti (is) m
• Ido: abado
• Interlingua: abbate
• Irish: ab (ga) m, luamh (ga) m
• Italian: abate (it) m
• Japanese: 修道院長 (ja) (shūdōinchō)

• Jèrriais: abbé m
• Korean: 승정 (ko) (僧正, seungjeong), 수도원장 (ko) (修道院長, sudowonjang)
• Latin: abbas (la) m
• Macedonian: опат (mk) (ópat) m, игумен (mk) (ígumen) m
• Mongolian: хамба лам (mn) (hamba lam)
• Norwegian: abbed (no)
• Novial: (male) abato
• Occitan: abat (oc) m
• Old Portuguese: abade m
• Persian: راهب بزرگ (fa) (raheb-e bozorg)
• Polish: opat (pl) m
• Portuguese: abade (pt) m
• Russian: аббат (ru) (abbát) m, настоятель (ru) (nastoját'el') m, игумен (ru) (igúm'en) m (orthodoxal)
• Serbo-Croatian: игуман (sh) (iguman) m, опат (sh) (opat) m
• Slovak: opát (sk) m
• Slovene: opat (sl) m
• Spanish: abad (es) m
• Swedish: abbot (sv)
• Turkish: başrahip (tr)
• Ukrainian: абат (uk) (abát) m
• Vietnamese: (cha) trưởng tu viện, viện chủ tu viện
• Volapük: (male or female) lepädan (vo), (male) hilepädan (vo)
• Welsh: abad (cy) m

Related terms

• abba
• abbé
• abbess
• abbot-general
• Abbot of Misrule
• abbot of the people
• archabbot
• archimandrite
• cardinal-abbot
• mitred abbot, mitered abbot
• titular abbot

Shorthand

• Gregg (Version: Centennial,Series 90,DJS,Simplified,Anniversary,Pre-Anniversary): a - b - o - t

See also

• prior
• rector
• monk

Derived terms

• Abbot of the people: a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa.
• Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. - "Encyclopedia Britanica"

References

• Webster 1913

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Swedish

Noun

abbot c

1. an abbot

Declension

Declension of abbot

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	abbot	abboten	abbotar	abbotarna
genitive	abbots	abbotens	abbotars	abbotarnas

Related terms

• abbé
• abbedissa
• abbotsstift

See also

• munk

References

• abbot in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)