Noun: abate
Gender: m
Hyphenation: a‧bà‧te
| Singular m | abate |
| Singular f | badessa |
| Plural m | abati |
Sample Sentences
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Io fui abate in San Zeno a Verona
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sotto lo ’mperio del buon Barbarossa,
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di cui dolente ancor Milan ragiona. (I was San Zeno's abbot at Verona under the empire of good Barbarossa, of whom a still-sorrowing Milan talks.) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 118–120; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like abate
abate,
Etymology
From Late Latin abbātem, from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).
Verbs referencing "abate"
Romanian Nouns
abate, German Nouns
Abate.
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