apis
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Noun [edit]
apis
- Plural form of api
Crimean Tatar [edit]
Noun [edit]
apis
Declension [edit]
| nominative | apis |
|---|---|
| genitive | apisniñ |
| dative | apiske |
| accusative | apisni |
| locative | apiste |
| ablative | apisten |
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Etymology [edit]
Uncertain. Possibly of Ancient Egyptian origin, where in hieroglyphs it was rendered as bj.t (“honey bee”) (.t is common Afro-Asiatic feminine postfix). Proto-Indo-European *bʰi- reconstructible from Germanic and Balto-Slavic evidence gave Old English bēo (English bee), but would have entered the Latin then as the reduced form /af/ from /?fj/. Alternatively, one can assume modification of initial obstruent due to a taboo (common for Proto-Indo-European flora). Other theories speculate on Osco-Umbrian borrowing, from an original *akuis (confer Latin aqui- in aquifolius, aquilinus; Osco-Umbrian reflex of Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin <qu> is regularly /p/).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
apis (genitive apis); f, third declension
- A bee.
- 2 BC — Ovid, Ars Amatoria, book I
- aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant
- or as the bees, when they have found plants to plunder of their honey, hover hither and thither among the thyme and the flowers
- aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant
- 2 BC — Ovid, Ars Amatoria, book I
Inflection [edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | apis | apēs |
| genitive | apis | apium |
| dative | apī | apibus |
| accusative | apem | apēs 1 |
| ablative | ape | apibus |
| vocative | apis | apēs |
1 May also be apīs.
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