Abaddon

Abaddon

See also: abaddon

English

Alternative forms

• Abaddan, Abadon

Etymology

From the Middle English Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from the Late Latin Abaddōn, from the Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn), from the Biblical Hebrew אבדון‎ (ʾăḇaddōn, literally “destruction, abyss”), from אבד‎ (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæ.dn̩/

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• Hyphenation: A‧bad‧don

Proper noun

Abaddon

1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;[First attested from 1350 to 1470][3]
2. (poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17^th century.][3]
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 4:

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Derived terms

• abaddon

Translations

the destroyer

Arabic: اَبَادُون‎ m (abadūn) Bengali: শয়তান (bn) (śôytan), অনিষ্টকারী (bn) (ôniṣṭkarī) Bulgarian: Ангелът на мрака (Angelǎt na mraka) Dutch: Apollyon German: Abaddon (de) m Greek: Ancient: Ἀβαδδών m (Abaddṓn) Korean: 아바똔 (abatton) Latin: Abaddōn (la) m (Late Latin) Old English: Āwēstend m Russian: Аваддо́н m (Avaddón) Spanish: Abadón m Vietnamese: con quỷ

Hell

Arabic: جَحِيم‎ m (jaḥīm) Bengali: নরক (nôrôk) Bulgarian: преизподня (bg) (preizpodnja), пъкъл (bg) (pǎkǎl) Dutch: de (diepten der) hel m German: Abaddon (de) m Spanish: Abadón m Vietnamese: địa ngục (vi), âm phủ (vi), âm ti (vi)

References

1. Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “Abaddon”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 1.
2. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3
3. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abaddon”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

Further reading

• Abaddon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈbad.doːn/, [äˈbäd̪ːoːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈbad.don/, [äˈbäd̪ːon]

Proper noun

Abaddōn m (indeclinable)

1. (Late Latin) the name of the angel of Tartarus
   • ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:

     et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon graece autem Apollyon et latine habet nomen Exterminans

     And they had over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans. ― Douay–Rheims translation

Synonyms

• Apollȳōn, Extermināns

Descendants

• → German: Abaddon
• → Middle English: Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon
  • English: Abaddon
• → Spanish: Abadón

References

• “Abaddon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press