- abbodesse
- [äb•bo•dess•s ] f (-an/-an) abbess
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
abbodesse
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abbess — /ab is/, n. a woman who is the superior of a convent of nuns. [1275 1325; ME abbesse < OF abbesse, abaesse < LL abbatissa, fem. of abbas ABBOT; r. ME abbatisse < LL; in turn r. OE abadisse, abbodesse (cf. OHG abbatissa) < LL *ab(b)adissa for… … Universalium
abbodysse — see abbodesse … Old to modern English dictionary
abbudisse — see abbodesse … Old to modern English dictionary
abedisse — see abbodesse … Old to modern English dictionary
isse — feminine suffix this suffix, the Latin issa, which in later English became the common suffix to mark the feminine gender, is found before the Norman Conquest in abbodesse; [compare estre] … Old to modern English dictionary
