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Latin
Etymology
Derived from the oblique stem abbāt- of abbās (“abbot”) + -ia (nominal derivational suffix).
Pronunciation 1
Noun
abbātia f (genitive abbātiae); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- abbacy
- abbey
- the body of abbots
- the estates and revenues pertaining to an abbey or abbacy; the territory governed by an abbey
- a chapter of canons or other non-monastic institution led by an abbot
- a non-cathedral church in an episcopal city
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Most descendants reflect an alternative form abbātīa with penultimate stress.
Pronunciation 2
Noun
abbātiā f
- ablative singular of abbātia
References
- abbatia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abbatia in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “abbatia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “abbatia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1–3