abbatissa

Latin

Etymology

abbās (“abbot”) +‎ -issa (“feminine noun-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.baːˈtis.sa/, [ab.baːˈtɪs.sa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtis.sa/

Noun

abbātissa f (genitive abbātissae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) abbess, female head of an abbey

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	abbātissa	abbātissae
genitive	abbātissae	abbātissārum
dative	abbātissae	abbātissīs
accusative	abbātissam	abbātissās
ablative	abbātissā	abbātissīs
vocative	abbātissa	abbātissae

Descendants

• Basque: abadesa
• Breton: abadessa
• Catalan: abadessa
• Czech: abatyše
• Danish: abbedisse
• Dutch: abdis
• English: abbess, abbatess
• Finnish: abbedissa
• Icelandic: abbadís
• Italian: badessa (abbadessa, abadessa)

• Norman: abbêsse
• Middle English: abbesse
• Norwegian: abbedisse
• Old French: abaesse, abeesse
• Old Portuguese: abadessa
• Portuguese: abadessa
• Russian: аббатиса (abbatisa)
• Spanish: abadesa
• Swedish: abbedissa
• Ukrainian: абатиса (abatysa)

References

• abbatissa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). ISBN 0-00-470763-X. page 1.

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

• abbadís
• abbadissa

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abbātissa (“abbess”).

Noun

abbatissa f (genitive abbatissu, plural abbatissur)

1. abbess

Inflection

  Declension of abbatissa (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	abbatissa	abbatissan	abbatissur	abbatissurnar
accusative	abbatissu	abbatissuna	abbatissur	abbatissanar
dative	abbatissu	abbatissunni	abbatissum	abbatissunum
genitive	abbatissu	abbatissunnar	abbatissna	abbatissnanna