Masculine

abbiente

Meaning

Concepts

Hyphenated as
ab‧bièn‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/abˈbjɛn.te/
Etymology

From Latin habentem, present active participle of habeō (“have, hold, possess”). The geminate /bb/ could reflect transmission via an old Italian abbere (variant of avere), analogy with the regular subjunctive form abbia (< Latin habeam), or simply an independent gemination before /j/.

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