abbatissa

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.baːˈtis.sa/, [äbːäːˈt̪ɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtis.sa/, [äbːäˈt̪isːä]

Noun

abbātissa f (genitive abbātissae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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
• French: abbesse
• Finnish: abbedissa
• Icelandic: abbadís
• Italian: badessa (abbadessa, abadessa)

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

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. 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	abbatissurnar
dative	abbatissu	abbatissunni	abbatissum	abbatissunum
genitive	abbatissu	abbatissunnar	abbatissna	abbatissnanna