abate
Abatement; reduction; an instance of thisAbatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
» The wind has abated.
Der Wind hat nachgelassen.
Ветер утих.
Ветер ослаб.
Ветер стих.
Meaning
3 senses(obsolete, uncountable)Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
(obsolete, uncountable)Deduction; subtraction; (countable) an instance of this.
(obsolete)An Italian abbot or other member of the clergy.
Examples
26 sentencesThe wind has abated.
ruВетер утих.
deDer Wind hat nachgelassen.
The rain has started to abate.
ruДождь начал стихать.
And that is unlikely to abate.
The storm is starting to abate.
ruБуря начинает стихать.
deDas Gewitter lässt langsam nach.
The storm didn't abate for several hours.
ruШторм не утихал несколько часов.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English abaten, from Anglo-Norman abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from LatiFrom Middle English abaten, from Anglo-Norman abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.
Borrowed from Italian abate (“abbot”), from Latin abbātem, the accusative singular of abbās (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), a variant of ἀββᾱ (abbā, “father; title of respect for an abbot”), from Aramaic אַבָּא (’abbā, “father; ancestor; teacher; chief, leader; author, originator”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- (“father”), ultimately imitative of a child’s word for “father”. The English word is a doublet of abbot.
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Forms
plural: abatesLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable