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abbot
noun
[ ˈabət ]
• a man who is the head of an abbey of monks.
Origin:
Old English abbod, from ecclesiastical Latin abbas, abbat-, from Greek abbas ‘father’, from Aramaic 'abbā (see Abba1).
