Abaddon
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ABADDONCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ABADDON Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#ABADDON Abaddōn, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ABADDON Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών (Ăbăddṓn), from Biblical HebrewCategory:English terms derived from Biblical Hebrew#ABADDON אֲבַדּוֹן (ʔăḇaddōn, “destruction; ruin”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæ.dn̩/Category:English 3-syllable words#ABADDONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ABADDON
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ABADDONAudio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: A‧bad‧don
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æbədɒːn/Category:English 3-syllable words#ABADDONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ABADDON
Proper noun
AbaddonCategory:English lemmas#ABADDONCategory:English proper nouns#ABADDONCategory:English uncountable nouns#ABADDONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ABADDONCategory:Pages with entries#ABADDONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ABADDON
- The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;[First attested from 1350 to 1470][3]
- (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#ABADDON) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17th century.][3]
- 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:
- In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt.Category:English terms with quotations#ABADDON
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Translations
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References
- ↑ Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “Abaddon”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 1.
- ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 3
- 1 2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abaddon”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#ABADDONCategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#ABADDON Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών (Ăbăddṓn), from Biblical HebrewCategory:Latin terms derived from Biblical Hebrew#ABADDON אֲבַדּוֹן (ʔăḇaddōn, “destruction; ruin”)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Abaddōn m (indeclinable)Category:Latin lemmas#ABADDONCategory:Latin proper nouns#ABADDONCategory:Latin indeclinable nouns#ABADDONCategory:Latin masculine indeclinable nouns#ABADDONCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ABADDONCategory:Latin masculine nouns#ABADDONCategory:Pages with entries#ABADDONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ABADDON
- (Late LatinCategory:Late Latin#ABADDON) the name of the angel of Tartarus
- ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:
- et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon graece autem Apollyon et latine habet nomen Exterminans
- And they had over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans. ― Douay–Rheims translation
- ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:
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Descendants
Further reading
- “Abaddon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Abaddon, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011