abbé
French
noun
Definitions
- an abbot, the head of an abbey
- (dated) a title or honorific given to priests in general
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abbas, abbās, abbātem derived from Ancient Greek ἀββα, ἀββᾶ derived from Aramaic אבא (father).
Origin
Aramaic
אבא
Gloss
father
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
父
Emoji
🎅
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Labbe English
- abba English
- abbot English
- abbotcy English
- abbotess English
- abbotry English
- abbotship English
- abbé English
- archabbot English
- subabbot English
- abba Latin
- abbas, abbās, abbātem Latin
- abbatia Latin
- abbatissa Latin
- abbatizo Latin
- abbās Latin
- abbās, abbātem Latin
- abbātia Latin
- abbātīa Latin
- abthania Latin
- Abbé German
- Abt German
- Labbé French
- abbe, abbé French
- abbesse French
- l' French
- ἀββα Ancient Greek
- ἀββα, ἀββᾶ Ancient Greek
- ἀββα, ἄββας Ancient Greek
- ἀββᾶς Ancient Greek
- opat Polish
- abbat Old English
- abbod Old English
- abbot Middle English
- thane Middle English
- abbati Old Norse
- abaesse Old French
- abato Esperanto
- abad Welsh
- abbet Middle Dutch
- abats Latvian
- ap Old Irish
- 𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰 Gothic
- abbot Old Swedish
- abatas Lithuanian
- abt Western Frisian
- abad Old Spanish
- abad Breton
- *ʔabw- Proto-Semitic
- *ʾab- Proto-Semitic
- abas Cornish
- אבא Aramaic
- aabut Gullah