abbatia
Latin
Etymology
Derived from the oblique stem abbāt- of abbās (“abbot”) + -ia (nominal derivational suffix).
Pronunciation 1
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈbaː.ti.a/, [äbˈbäːt̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈbat.t͡si.a/, [äbˈbät̪ː͡s̪iä]
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.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | abbātia | abbātiae |
| Genitive | abbātiae | abbātiārum |
| Dative | abbātiae | abbātiīs |
| Accusative | abbātiam | abbātiās |
| Ablative | abbātiā | abbātiīs |
| Vocative | abbātia | abbātiae |
Descendants
Most descendants reflect an alternative form abbātīa with penultimate stress.
- Asturian: abadía
- Catalan: abadia
- Italian: abbazia, badia
- → Romanian: abație
- Old French: abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe
- French: abbaye
- → Middle English: abbey
- English: abbey
- Norman: abbaye
- Old Occitan: abadia
- Occitan: abadiá
- Old Portuguese: abadia
- Galician: abadía
- Portuguese: abadia
- Sicilian: batìa
- Spanish: abadía
- → Basque: abadia
- → Proto-West Germanic: *abbadejā (see there for further descendants)
- → Polish: abbacja (learned)
- → Serbo-Croatian: opatija
- → Slovene: opatija
Pronunciation 2
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈbaː.ti.aː/, [äbˈbäːt̪iäː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈbat.t͡si.a/, [äbˈbät̪ː͡s̪iä]
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 1369101
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “abbatia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1–3