different between abbot vs vicar

English

Etymology

From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abb?s (“father”), from Ancient Greek ????? (abbâs), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father”). Doublet of abba, abbé, and bwana.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æb.?t/
• Homophone: Abbot
• Rhymes: -æb?t

Noun

abbot (plural abbots)

1. The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. [First attested around the early 12^th century.]

   The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.

2. The pastor and/or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
3. A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
4. (archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
5. (archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Gullah: aabut

Translations

See also

• prior
• rector
• monk

References

• Webster 1913

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish abbot, from Latin abb?s, from Ancient Greek ????? (abbâs), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father”). Doublet of abbé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ab??t/

Noun

abbot c

1. an abbot

Declension

Related terms

See also

• munk

References

• abbot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• abbot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Alternative forms

• vic. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vic?rius (“vicarious, substitute”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

vicar (plural vicars)

1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
3. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vicarate
• vicarian
• vicariate

Descendants

• ? Welsh: ficer

Translations

Further reading

• vicar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -cavir, Virac, vraic

Ido

Etymology

Derived from vice +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?t?sar/

Verb

vicar (present vicas, past vicis, future vicos, conditional vicus, imperative vicez)

1. (transitive, archaic) to replace

   Synonym: remplasar

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130

Romanian

Etymology

From French vicaire, from Latin vicarius.

Noun

vicar m (plural vicari)

1. vicar

Declension