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English
Noun
abanet (plural abanets)
- Alternative spelling of abnet
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Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew אַבְנֵט (ʾaḇnēṭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
abanēt ? (indeclinable)
- (Judaism) abnet
- 386–400 CE, Saint Jerome, Epistulae 64.12 in Patrologia Latina (volume 22), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1845, column 614:
Tertium genus est vestīmentī, quod illī appellant abanēt, nōs cingulum vel balteum, vel zōnam possumus dīcere.- The third kind of clothing, which they call “abnet”, we can call girdle, belt or zone.
c. 600 CE – 625 CE,
Isidorus Hispalensis,
Etymologiae 19.21.2:
- Abanēt cingulum sacerdōtāle rotundum, polymitā arte ex coccō, purpurā, iacinthōque contextum, ita ut flōrēs atque gemmae in eō esse vidērentur distīnctae.
- The abnet is a round priestly belt, woven with intricate skill out of scarlet, purple and cornflower thread, so that flowers and gems can be seen adorned on it.
Declension
Indeclinable noun.
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