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Енглески

Систем

ен+нг=енг



Etymology

From Средњи Енглески abbot, abbod, abbed, from Стари Енглески abbat, abbad, abbod, from Латински abbās (father), from Lua грешка in Модул:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS.., from Арамејски אבא (’abbā, father). Дублети of abba, abbé, and bwana.

Pronunciation

Noun

abbot (plural abbots)

  1. The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. [First attested around the early 12th century.][1][2]
    The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
  2. The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
  3. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
  4. (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.[3][4]
  5. (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.[3][4]

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Gullah: aabut

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References

  1. Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN 0550142304), page 2
  2. Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN 978-0198605751), page 3
  3. 3,0 3,1 “abbot” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 3.
  4. 4,0 4,1 Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues[1], volume 1, page 4
  • Webster 1913

Шведски

Etymology

From Old Swedish abbot, from Латински abbās, from Lua грешка in Модул:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS.., from Арамејски אבא (’abbā, father). Дублети of abbé.

Pronunciation

Noun

abbot c

  1. an abbot

Declension

Declension of abbot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative abbot abboten abbotar abbotarna
Genitive abbots abbotens abbotars abbotarnas

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