abbas

See also: Abbas

English

Noun

abbas

1. plural of abba

Anagrams

• AABBs, ababs, babas

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin abbas (“abbot”), from , from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”).

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 of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From , from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈab.baːs/, [ˈäbːäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.bas/, [ˈäbːäs]

Noun

abbās m (genitive abbātis); 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

Related terms

• abbātia
• abbātissa
• abbātīzō

Descendants

• Italian: abate, abbate
  • → Albanian: abat
  • → Belarusian: абат (abat)
  • → Bulgarian: абат (abat)
  • → English: abate
  • → German: Abate
  • → Romanian: abate
  • → Russian: аббат (abbat)
  • → Sardinian: abate
  • → Ukrainian: абат (abat)
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: abá
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: abat
  • Occitan: abat
• Old Galician-Portuguese: abade
  • Galician: abade
  • Portuguese: abade
• Old Spanish: abad, abbad
  • Spanish: abad
    • → Basque: abade
    • → Hiligaynon: abad
    • → Tagalog: abad
• → Breton: abad
• → Cornish: abas
• → Danish: abbed
• → Finnish: apotti
• → Latvian: abats
• → Lithuanian: abatas
• → Norwegian: abbed
• → Old English: abbat, abbod
  • Middle English: abbot, abbod
    • English: abbot
      • Gullah: aabut
  • → Old Norse: ábóti
    • Icelandic: ábóti
• → Old French:
  • French: abbé
    • → English: abbé
    • → German: Abbé
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: abbé
    • → Slovak: abbé
    • → Swedish: abbé
  • Norman: abbé
• → Old High German: abbāt
  • Middle High German: abbāt
    • German: Abt
    • Luxembourgish: Abt
    • → Dutch: abt
  • → Hungarian: apát
  • → Czech: opat
    • → Polish: opat
  • → Macedonian: опат (opat)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: опат
  • → Slovak: opát
  • → Slovene: opat
  • → Ukrainian: опат (opat)
• → Old Irish: ap, abb
  • Irish: ab
  • Manx: abb
  • Scottish Gaelic: aba
• → Old Norse: abbati
  • Faroese: abbati
• → Old Swedish: abbot
  • → Swedish: abbot
  • → Tatar: abbat
• → Welsh: abad

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.