mynsterfæder
Old English
Etymology
Calque of Latin monastēriī pāter (“father of a monastery”), equivalent to mynster (“monastery”) + fæder (“father”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmyn.sterˌfæ.der/
Noun
mynsterfæder m
- head of a monastery
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mynster-faeder”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.