abbas

See also: Abbas and ABBA:s

English

abbas

plural of abba
(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.

abbas

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

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

Third-declension noun.

Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: abate (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: abbate
- Sicilian: abbati
Padanian:
- Piedmontese: abà
- Romagnol: abêt
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: abat
- Occitan: abat
West Iberian
- Asturian: abá
- Old Galician-Portuguese: abade
  - Galician: abade
  - Portuguese: abade
- Old Spanish: abbat, abad
  - Spanish: abad (see there for further descendants)
→ 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)

“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.