abeille
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abeille
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French abeille, from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula, diminutive of apis (whence the Old French ef).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /a.bɛj/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - (Montreal) IPA(key): /a.bɛːj/
Audio (Canada, Montreal) (file) Audio (file) - Homophone: abeilles
Noun edit
abeille f (plural abeilles)
- bee, honeybee
- Je me suis fait piquer par une abeille
- I got stung by a bee
- 1874, Victor Hugo, Quatre-Vingt-Treize:
- Alors, contentez-vous du travail comme la fourmi, et du miel comme l’abeille.
- So be happy with work, like the ant, and honey, like the bee.
- 2012 September 10, Anne-Marie Duquette, L'Action:
- Chaque ruche, en ce début d’automne, abrite quelque 15 000 abeilles, le «pic» de 50 000 étant atteint vers juillet, la reine pouvant pondre jusqu’à 1500 oeufs par jour.
- Each hive, at the start of autumn, houses some 15,000 bees, with a peak of 50,000 reached by July, the queen laying up to 1,500 eggs per day.
- (figuratively) a writer whose style is considered pure like honey
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- honey bee
- insect of order hymenoptera
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Further reading edit
- “abeille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula.
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Noun edit
abeille f (plural abeilles)