Abyssin

See also: abyssin

English

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Etymology

From Renaissance Latin Abyssīnī (“the Abyssinians”).[1]

Noun

Abyssin (plural Abyssins)

  1. (rare) Synonym of Abyssinian. [from before 1577][1]
    • 1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:
      The Abyssian takes the honey, without failing to leave part of it for the bird...

Adjective

Abyssin

  1. (rare) Synonym of Abyssinian. [from 1600][1]
    • 1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:
      Here we lost a good old Abyssian convert, a man much valued in his order...

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “Abyssin, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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