Abaddon

• Abaddan, Abadon

From the Middle English Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from the Late Latin Abaddōn, from the Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn), from the Biblical Hebrew אבדון (ʾăḇaddōn, literally “destruction, abyss”), from אבד (ʾāḇaḏ, “to be lost, to perish”).^[1][2]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæ.dn̩/

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• Hyphenation: A‧bad‧don

Abaddon

1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;[First attested from 1350 to 1470]^[3]
2. (poetic) Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. [Late 17^th century.]^[3]
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:

     In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt.

• abaddon

•   Abaddon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀβαδδών (Abaddṓn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈbad.doːn/, [äˈbäd̪ːoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈbad.don/, [äˈbäd̪ːon]

Abaddōn m (indeclinable)

1. (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:

     et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon graece autem Apollyon et latine habet nomen Exterminans

     And they had over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans. ― Douay–Rheims translation

• Apollȳōn, Extermināns

• → German: Abaddon
• → Middle English: Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon
  • English: Abaddon
• → Spanish: Abadón

• “Abaddon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Abaddon”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011