abbé

• abbe

Borrowed from French abbot, from Latin abbās (“abbot”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /æˈbeɪ/, /ˈæb.eɪ/

abbé (plural abbés)

1. (obsolete) A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey. [mid 16th century]
2. An honorific title for a member of the French clergy. [mid 16th century]

• “abbé” in William Morris, editor, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1971 [1969], →OCLC, page 2.
• Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 2
• “abbé” in Christine A. Lindberg, editor, The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, 2002, →ISBN, page 2.
• Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 2
• “abbé” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 3.

• Babe, babe

From Old French, borrowed from Latin abbās, abbātem, from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶ (abbâ), from Aramaic אבא‎ (’abbā, “father”). Compare English abbot.

• IPA^(key): /a.be/

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abbé m (plural abbés, feminine abbesse)

1. an abbot, the head of an abbey
2. (dated) a title or honorific given to priests in general

• (title): père

• (abbot): abbesse (abbess) (female head of an abbey)

• abbatial
• abbatiale
• abbaye
• abbesse

• → English: abbé
• → Slovak: abbé
• → Swedish: abbé

• “abbé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French, borrowed from Latin abbās, abbātis (“abbot”).

abbé m (plural abbés)

1. (Jersey) abbot

• abbêsse (“abbess”)

• abbaye (“abbey”)

From the French abbé (“abbot”), from Latin abbās (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), ἀββα (abba), from Aramaic אבא‎ (ʾabbāʾ, “father”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈabbɛː/

abbé m (genitive singular abbého, nominative plural abbéovia, declension pattern of kuli)

1. abbot

• abbé in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• Rhymes: -eː

abbé c

1. an abbot

• abbé in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

• Abbe
• Ebba