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語源

Borrowed from Latin abbātissa

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑb.bɑ.dis.se/

名詞

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....

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     ⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare forþferde Hild abbodesse on Strēonesheale.

     And in the same year Abbess Hild, died in Whitby.

語形変化

Weak feminine (n-stem):

派生した語

• English: abbotess

参照

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