St. Dominic of Silos enthroned as abbot (Hispano-Flemish Gothic 15th century)
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from abba, the Syriac form of the Hebrew ab, and means "father".[1] The female equivalent is abbess.
^Thomas Oesterreich, Abbot , in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.