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abies

See also: Abies

English edit

Etymology edit

From the genus name Abies.

Pronunciation edit

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.biˌiz/, /ˈæ.biˌiz/

Noun edit

abies (plural abies)

  1. A tree of the genus Abies.
  2. A tannin made from the barks of firs and spruces.

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Translations

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin abies.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

abies m (plural abies)

  1. (archaic) a fir tree

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

 
abiēs (a silver fir)

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

Noun edit

abiēs f (genitive abietis); third declension

  1. the silver fir (Abies alba), the silver-fir's wood
  2. (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)

References edit

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abies”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 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

  1. In comparison with.
  2. In addition to, besides.
  3. except

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