abbadisse

• abbedische, abbedisse, abdisse

abbadisse f

1. abbotess, abbess; head of a monastery or nunnery

• "abbadisse" in Lübben, August und Christoph Walther Mittelniederdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Vol II, 1888. Published by Norden und Leipzig.
• "abbadisse" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
• Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm / Neubearbeitung (A–F), digitalisierte Fassung im Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Version 01/23, <https://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB2>, retrieved 19.12.2024. Entry 'äbtisse'.

• abedisse, abbodesse, abbodyse, abbudesse, abbudisse
• aƀƀ, aƀƀe (scribal abbreviations)

Borrowed from Latin abbātissa

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑb.bɑ.dis.se/

abbadisse f

1. abbotess, abbess
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Þā on þām eahteoþan ġēare siþþan hēo abbudisse wæs, hēo wæs ġeuntrumod swā swā hēo ǣr witeġode, swā þæt ān ġeswel wēox on hire swūran myċel under ċynnbāne...

     Then on the eighth year since she became abbotess, she was sickened as she had previously predicted, as a large tumor grew on her neck under the chinbone....

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     ⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare forþferde Hild abbodesse on Strēonesheale.

     And in the same year Abbess Hild, died in Whitby.

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• English: abbotess

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “abbadisse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.