abbatissa

Latin

Etymology

abbās (“abbot”) +‎ -issa (“feminine noun-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.baːˈtis.sa/, [äbːäːˈt̪ɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtis.sa/, [äbːäˈt̪isːä]

Noun

abbātissa f (genitive abbātissae, masculine abbās); first declension

1. (Late Latin) abbess, female head of an abbey

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	abbātissa	abbātissae
genitive	abbātissae	abbātissārum
dative	abbātissae	abbātissīs
accusative	abbātissam	abbātissās
ablative	abbātissā	abbātissīs
vocative	abbātissa	abbātissae

Descendants

• → Breton: abadessa
• Catalan: abadessa
• → Czech: abatyše
• → Danish: abbedisse
• → Dutch: abdis
• → English: abbatess
• → Finnish: abbedissa
• → Icelandic: abbadís
• Italian: badessa, abadessa, abbadessa (archaic)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: abbedisse
• Old French: abaesse, abeesse
  • French: abbesse
  • Norman: abbêsse
  • → Middle English: abbesse
    • English: abbess
• → Middle High German: abtissine
  • → Czech: jeptiška
• Old Galician-Portuguese: abadessa
  • Galician: abadesa
  • Portuguese: abadessa
• Old Spanish: abbadesa
  • Spanish: abadesa
    • → Basque: abadesa
    • → Hiligaynon: abadesa
    • → Tagalog: abadesa
• → Polish: abtysa (learned)
• Romanian: abatesă
• → Russian: аббатиса (abbatisa)
• → Swedish: abbedissa
• → Ukrainian: абатиса (abatysa)
• → Welsh: abades

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.baːˈtis.saː/, [äbːäːˈt̪ɪs̠ːäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtis.sa/, [äbːäˈt̪isːä]

Noun

abbātissā f

1. ablative singular of abbātissa

References

• “abbatissa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.

Maltese

Alternative forms

• abadissa, badessa

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian abbatissa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtɪs.sa/

• Audio (Gozo):

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Noun

abbatissa f (plural abbatissi, masculine abbati)

1. abbess

Related terms

• abbati (abbatin)

 

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• abbadís
• abbadissa

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abbātissa (“abbess”).

Noun

abbatissa f (genitive abbatissu, plural abbatissur)

1. abbess

Declension

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	abbatissa	abbatissan	abbatissur	abbatissurnar
accusative	abbatissu	abbatissuna	abbatissur	abbatissurnar
dative	abbatissu	abbatissunni	abbatissum	abbatissunum
genitive	abbatissu	abbatissunnar	abbatissna	abbatissnanna

  Declension of abbatissa (weak ōn-stem)