abbadisse

Old English

Alternative forms

• abbodyse, abbudisse, abedisse

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abbātissa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑb.bɑ.dis.se/

Noun

abbadisse f

1. abbotess, abbess
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Þā on þām eahteoþan ġēare siþþan hēo abbudisse wæs, hēo wæs ġeuntrumod swā swā hēo ǣr witeġode, swā þæt ān ġeswel wēox on hire swūran myċel under ċynnbane...

     Then on the eighth year since she became abbotess, she was sickened as she had previously predicted, as a large tumor grew on her neck under the chinbone....

Declension

Declension of abbadisse (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	abbadisse	abbadissan
accusative	abbadissan	abbadissan
genitive	abbadissan	abbadissena
dative	abbadissan	abbadissum

Descendants

• English: abbotess

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “abbadisse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.