abbadisse

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• abbedische, abbedisse, abdisse

Noun

abbadisse f

1. abbotess, abbess; head of a monastery or nunnery

References

• Lübben, August und Christoph Walther Mittelniederdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Vol II, 1888. Published by Norden und Leipzig. Entry: "abbadisse".
• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014) Entry: "abbadisse".

• Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm / Neubearbeitung (A–F), digitalisierte Fassung im Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Version 01/23, <https://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB2>, abgerufen am 19.12.2024. Entry 'äbtisse'.

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 ċynnbāne...

     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

Weak:

	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.