abbey
意味
- 大修道院
- 《集合的に》(一院全体の)僧,尼僧
- (大修道院の一部であった)大寺院;《the A-》ウエストミンスター寺院(Westminster Abbey)
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, from Classical Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy and Opatija. See abbot.