abbey
English
/ˈæb.i/
noun
Definitions
- The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- The church of a monastery.
- (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English abbey derived from Old French abaie, abaïe derived from Latin abbātia.
Origin
Latin
abbātia
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abbeylike English
- abbeystead English
- archabbey English
- stead English
- abbas Latin
- abbatia Latin
- abbās Latin
- abbātia Latin
- abbazia Italian
- abadía Spanish, Castilian
- ἀββᾶς Ancient Greek
- abbey Middle English
- abaie Old French
- abaie, abaïe Old French
- abație Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- abbateia Old High German
- abbaye Norman
- abaci Albanian
- abbaïe Middle French
- abadia Old Portuguese
- abbedie Middle Low German
- abadia Old Occitan
- aa’bay Gullah