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See also: Abies
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the genus name Abies.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abies (plural abies)
Translations
[edit]Translations
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abies m (plural abies)
Further reading
[edit]- “abies”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
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Etymology
[edit]Usually connected with the Ancient Greek hapax ἄβιν (ábin, “silver fir or similar conifer”), both reflecting a root *abi-, ultimately likely from a substrate source.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.bi.eːs/, [ˈäbieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.bi.es/, [ˈäːbies]
Noun
[edit]abiēs f (genitive abietis); third declension
- the silver fir (Abies alba), the silver-fir's wood
- (poetic) anything made of deal (fir wood)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | abiēs | abietēs |
Genitive | abietis | abietum |
Dative | abietī | abietibus |
Accusative | abietem | abietēs |
Ablative | abiete | abietibus |
Vocative | abiēs | abietēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Reflexes of an assumed variant *abētem:[3] (cf. parētem < parietem)
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “abiēs, -etis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄβιν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 5
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abies”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 32
Further reading
[edit]- “abies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]E.D.D. suggests all-be-as, but see byes. The development of meaning in 3. seems a recent extension.
Preposition
[edit]abies
- In comparison with.
- In addition to, besides.
- except
References
[edit]- “abies, prep.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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