abbot

See also: Abbot

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.ət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.ət/

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• Homophone: Abbot
• Rhymes: -æbət

Noun

abbot ‎(plural abbots, feminine abbess)

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.
3. (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
4. (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.

Derived terms

Derived terms

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

abbot on the cross: slang term for a brothel bully. croziered abbot: slang term for a brothel bully.

Related terms

Related terms

abba abbess Abbot of Misrule abbot of the people

abbot-general abbé archabbot archimandrite

cardinal-abbot mitred abbot, mitered abbot titular abbot

Translations

superior or head of an abbey or monastery

• Albanian: kryemurg m
• Arabic: رَئِيس الدَّيْر ‎(raʾīs ad-dayr)
• Armenian: աբբահայր (hy) ‎(abbahayr), աբբա (hy) ‎(abba)
• Asturian: abá m
• Basque: abade (eu)
• Belarusian: аба́т m ‎(abát)
• Breton: abad (br) m
• Bulgarian: игумен (bg) ‎(igumen)
• Burmese: ဆရာတော် (my) ‎(hca.ratau)
• Catalan: abat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方丈 (zh) ‎(fāngzhàng)

• Cornish: abas m
• Crimean Tatar: abbat
• Czech: opat (cs) m
• Danish: abbed (da)
• Dutch: abt (nl)
• Esperanto: abato (eo)
• Faroese: abbati m
• Finnish: apotti (fi)
• French: abbé (fr) m
• Galician: abade (gl) m
• German: Abt (de) m
• Greek: ηγούμενος (el) ‎(igoúmenos)
• Gullah: aabut
• Hungarian: apát (hu)
• Icelandic: ábóti (is) m
• Ido: abado (io)
• Interlingua: abbate
• Irish: ab m, luamh m
• Italian: abate (it) m

• Japanese: 修道院長 ‎(shūdōinchō)
• Korean: 승정 ‎(僧正, seungjeong), 수도원장 ‎(修道院長, sudowonjang)
• Latin: abbas m
• Latvian: abats (lv) m
• Lithuanian: abatas (lt) m
• Macedonian: опат m ‎(opat), игумен m ‎(igumen)
• Manx: abb m, fer-reill abban m
• Mongolian: хамба лам (mn) ‎(hamba lam)
• Norman: abbé m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: abbed (no)
• Novial: abato (male)
• Occitan: abat (oc) m
• Old Portuguese: abade m
• Persian: راهب بزرگ ‎(raheb-e bozorg)
• Polish: opat (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: abade (pt) m
• Russian: абба́т (ru) m ‎(abbát), настоя́тель (ru) m ‎(nastojátelʹ), игу́мен (ru) m ‎(igúmen) (orthodoxal)
• Serbo-Croatian: игуман m, iguman (sh) m, опат m, opat (sh) m
• Slovak: opát (sk) m
• Slovene: opat (sl) m
• Spanish: abad (es) m
• Swedish: abbot (sv)
• Tagalog: abad (tl)
• Turkish: başrahip (tr)
• Ukrainian: аба́т (uk) m ‎(abát)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} (cha) trưởng tu viện, ^{(please verify)} viện chủ tu viện
• Volapük: (male or female) lepädan (vo), (male) hilepädan
• Welsh: abad (cy) m

See also

• prior
• rector
• monk

References

• Webster 1913

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Swedish

Noun

abbot c

1. an abbot

Declension

Inflection of abbot
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	abbot	abboten	abbotar	abbotarna
Genitive	abbots	abbotens	abbotars	abbotarnas

Related terms

Related terms

abbedissa abbotsstift abbé

See also

• munk

References

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