The corpus record — Latin

abbas

abbas · m

the head of an ecclesiastical community, an abbot

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Where it lives

Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 28 · 3.97/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k

What it meant

abbās — Lewis & Short

abbās, ātis, m.id.,

I the head of an ecclesiastical community, an abbot (eccl. Lat.), Sid. 16, 114; Inscr. Mommsen, 3485 (A. D. 468).—Hence, abbātissa, ae, f., an abbess, Inscr. Mommsen, 3896 (A. D. 570); and abbātĭa, ae, f., an abbey (eccl. Lat.), Hler.

In the wild

abbas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.28
abbas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.5
abbas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.30.p2
abbas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.16.p1
abbas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.25.p3
abbas Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.21.p1

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.