The corpus record — Latin

abba

Obba

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Where it lives

Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4 · 0.57/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. Abba — Lewis & Short

Abba, ae, false read. in

Liv. 30, 7, 10, Instead of

I Obba, q. v.)

2. abba — Lewis & Short

abba, indecl., = a)bba=; [Chald. Abba, Heb. ab],

I father, Vulg. Marc. 14, 36; ib. Rom. 8, 15; ib. Gal. 4, 6.

In the wild

abba Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.24.p39
abba Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.16.p2
abba Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum praefatio.p4
Abba Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.4
abba Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.21.p1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. abba (scan p. 27; entry #69).

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.