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

Declension of abbatissa (weak ōn-stem)

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