abbas

See also: Abbas and ABBA:s

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abəz/

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Noun

abbas

1. plural of abba
2. (obsolete) abbot
   • 1607, Iohn Cowell, editor, The Interpreter: or Booke Containing the Signification of Words‎^[1], Cambridge: Iohn Legate, page 18:

     Abbot (Abbas) in French Abbè [abbé] […] him that in the convent or fellowſhip of Canons hath the rule and preheminence.

Anagrams

• AABBs, babas

Indonesian

Noun

abbas

1. (Catholicism) alternative spelling of abas (“abbot”)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈab.baːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈab.bas]

Noun

abbās m (genitive abbātis, feminine abbātissa); third declension

1. an abbot

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abbās	abbātēs
genitive	abbātis	abbātum
dative	abbātī	abbātibus
accusative	abbātem	abbātēs
ablative	abbāte	abbātibus
vocative	abbās	abbātēs

Coordinate terms

• abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)

Related terms

• abbātia (“abbey”)
• abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)
• abbātīzō

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Istriot: abàte
  • Italian: abbate, abate (see there for further descendants)
  • Neapolitan: abbate
  • Sicilian: abbati
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: abà
  • Romagnol: abêt
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: abat
  • Occitan: abat
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: abá
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: abade
    • Galician: abade
    • Portuguese: abade
  • Old Spanish: abbat, abad
    • Spanish: abad (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Crimean Tatar: abbat
• → Indonesian: abbas
• → Latvian: abats
• → Lithuanian: abatas
• → Middle Dutch: abbet
  • Dutch: abt (see there for further descendants)
• → Old English: abbod, abbad, abbud (see there for further descendants)
• → Old French: abbe (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Frisian: abbit (see there for further descendants)
• → Old High German: abbāt (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: ap (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Saxon: *abbat (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *abad (see there for further descendants)

See also

• English Milton Abbas

References

• “abbas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "abbas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.