Abaddon
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Middle English Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from the Late Latin Abaddōn, from the Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn), from the Biblical Hebrew אבדון (ʾăḇaddōn, literally “destruction, abyss”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: A‧bad‧don
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæ.dn̩/
Proper noun[edit]
Abaddon (plural Abaddons)
- The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon; Asmodeus. [First attested from 1350 to 1470][3]
- (poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17th century.][3]
- John Milton:
- In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt.
- John Milton:
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the destroyer
Hell
References[edit]
- ^ “Abaddon” in Christine A. Lindberg, editor, The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, 2002, →ISBN, page 1.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 2
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Abaddōn m (indeclinable)
- (Late Latin) the name of the angel of Tartarus
- ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:
- et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon graece autem Apollyon et latine habet nomen Exterminans
- And they had over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans. ― Douay–Rheims translation
- ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Abaddon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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