abete
Galician edit
Verb edit
abete
- inflection of abetar:
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
- abeto (dialectal or archaic)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *abētem, from Classical Latin abietem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abete m (plural abeti)
- fir, fir tree, particularly the silver fir (Abies alba)
- c. 1316, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Purgatorio[1], lines 133–135; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
- e come abete in alto si digrada
di ramo in ramo, così quello in giuso,
cred’ io, perché persona sù non vada.- And even as a fir-tree tapers upward from bough to bough, so downwardly did that; I think in order that no one might climb it.
- deal (fir wood)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- abete in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- abete on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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Noun edit
abete m (plural abetes)
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Noun edit
abete m (plural abetes)