Noun: abbot
| Singular | abbot |
| Plural | abbots |
Sample Sentences
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The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
Nouns inflected like abbot
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abbās (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”). Doublet of abba, abbé, and bwana. See: Middle English Nouns '
abbot', Latin Nouns '
abbās'.
Verbs referencing "abbot"
French Nouns
abbé.