abbas

See also: Abbas

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abəz/
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Noun

abbas

  1. plural of abba

Anagrams


Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin abbas (abbot), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, father), from Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (father). Doublet of aba and abu.

Noun

abbas

  1. (Catholicism) abbot

Further reading


Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀββα, ἀββᾶς (abba, abbâs, father or abbot), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, father).

Pronunciation

Noun

abbās m (genitive abbātis, feminine abbātissa); 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

Descendants

  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Italian: abate (see there for further descendants)
    • Neapolitan: abbate
  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: abà
    • Romagnol: abêt
  • Old Occitan:
  • West Iberian
    • Asturian: abá
    • Old Portuguese: abade
    • Old Spanish: abad, abbad
      • Spanish: abad (see there for further descendants)
Borrowings

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
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