Abaddon

== English == === Alternative forms === Abaddan, Abadon === Etymology === From Middle English Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from Late Latin Abaddōn, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών (Ăbăddṓn), from Biblical Hebrew אֲבַדּוֹן (ʔăḇaddōn, “destruction; ruin”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæ.dn̩/ Hyphenation: A‧bad‧don (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æbədɒːn/ === Proper noun === Abaddon The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;[First attested from 1350 to 1470] (poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17th century.] ==== Derived terms ==== abaddon ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Abaddon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών (Ăbăddṓn), from Biblical Hebrew אֲבַדּוֹן (ʔăḇaddōn, “destruction; ruin”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbad.doːn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈbad.don] === Proper noun === Abaddōn m (indeclinable) (Late Latin) the name of the angel of Tartarus ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11: ==== Synonyms ==== Apollȳōn, Extermināns ==== Descendants ==== → German: Abaddon → Middle English: Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon English: Abaddon → Spanish: Abadón === 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