abbot

English

Etymology

From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abbās (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbas), 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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• Rhymes: -æbət

Noun

abbot (plural abbots)

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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• abba
• abbé
• abbess
• abbot-general
• Abbot of Misrule
• abbot of the people
• archabbot
• archimandrite
• cardinal-abbot
• mitred abbot, mitered abbot
• titular abbot

Translations

superior or head of an abbey or monastery

• Arabic: رئيس الدير (Rʼiys ad-Dyr)
• Basque: abade (eu)
• Belarusian: аба́т m (abát)
• Breton: abad (br) m, ebed (br), abaded pl
• Bulgarian: игумен (bg) (igumen)
• Catalan: abat (ca)
• 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)
• 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)

• Jèrriais: abbé m
• Korean: 승정 (僧正, seungjeong), 수도원장 (修道院長, sudowonjang)
• Latin: abbas m
• Macedonian: опат m (ópat), игумен m (ígumen)
• Mongolian: хамба лам (mn) (hamba lam)
• Norwegian: abbed (no)
• Novial: (male) abato
• Occitan: abat (oc) m
• Old Portuguese: abade m
• Persian: راهب بزرگ (raheb-e bozorg)
• Polish: opat (pl) m
• Portuguese: abade (pt) m
• Russian: аббат (ru) m (abbát), настоятель (ru) m (nastoját'el'), игумен (ru) m (igúm'en) (orthodoxal)
• Serbo-Croatian: игуман m (iguman), опат m (opat)
• Slovak: opát m
• Slovene: opat (sl) m
• Spanish: abad (es) m
• Swedish: abbot (sv)
• Turkish: başrahip (tr)
• Ukrainian: абат (uk) m (abát)
• Vietnamese: (cha) trưởng tu viện, viện chủ tu viện
• Volapük: (male or female) lepädan (vo), (male) hilepädan
• Welsh: abad m

See also

• prior
• rector
• monk

References

• Webster 1913

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Swedish

Noun

abbot c

1. an abbot

Declension

Declension of abbot

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	abbot	abboten	abbotar	abbotarna
genitive	abbots	abbotens	abbotars	abbotarnas

Related terms

• abbé
• abbedissa
• abbotsstift

See also

• munk

References

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