abbatissa

abbās (“abbot”) +‎ -issa (“feminine noun-forming suffix”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.baːˈtis.sa/, [äbːäːˈt̪ɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtis.sa/, [äbːäˈt̪isːä]

abbātissa f (genitive abbātissae, masculine abbās); first declension

1. (Late Latin) abbess, female head of an abbey

First-declension noun.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.baːˈtis.saː/, [äbːäːˈt̪ɪs̠ːäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtis.sa/, [äbːäˈt̪isːä]

abbātissā f

1. ablative singular of abbātissa

• “abbatissa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.

• abadissa, badessa

Borrowed from Sicilian abbatissa.

• IPA^(key): /ab.baˈtɪs.sa/

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abbatissa f (plural abbatissi, masculine abbati)

1. abbess

• abbadís
• abbadissa

Borrowed from Latin abbātissa (“abbess”).

abbatissa f (genitive abbatissu, plural abbatissur)

1. abbess