abbey
Middle English
/aˈbɛi̯(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- An abbey a building or monastic institution.
- The church located inside a monastery.
- (rare) Abbotship; abbacy.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French abaie derived from Latin abbātia.
Origin
Latin
abbātia
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abbey English
- abbeylike English
- abbeystead English
- archabbey English
- abbas Latin
- abbatia Latin
- abbās Latin
- abbātia Latin
- abbazia Italian
- abadía Spanish, Castilian
- ἀββᾶς Ancient Greek
- abaie Old French
- abaie, abaïe Old French
- abație Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- abbateia Old High German
- abbaye Norman
- abaci Albanian
- abbaïe Middle French
- abadia Old Portuguese
- abbedie Middle Low German
- abadia Old Occitan
- aa’bay Gullah