apis

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Contents 1 Catalan 1.1 Noun 2 Crimean Tatar 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Declension 2.1.2 Synonyms 3 Latin 3.1 Alternative spellings 3.2 Etymology 3.3 Pronunciation 3.4 Noun 3.4.1 Inflection 3.4.2 Derived terms 3.4.3 Descendants 3.4.4 See also

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Noun

apis m. pl.

1. Plural of api.

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[edit] Crimean Tatar

[edit] Noun

apis

1. prison

[edit] Declension

[edit] Synonyms

• türme

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Alternative spellings

• apes

[edit] Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly of Ancient Egyptian origin, where in hieroglyphs it was rendered as bj.t (“‘honey bee’”) (.t is common Afro-Asiatic feminine postfix). PIE root *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 PIE flora). Other theories speculate on Osco-Umbrian borrowing, from an original *akuis (confer Latin aqui- in aquifolius, aquilinus; Osco-Umbrian reflex of PIE labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin /qu/ is regularly /p/).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈa.pis/
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[edit] Noun

apis (genitive apis); f, third declension

1. 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

[edit] Inflection

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.

[edit] Derived terms

apiānus apiārius apiastra

apīcius apicula apium

[edit] Descendants

• Italian: ape
• Sicilian: lapa

[edit] See also

• crabro
• mel
• vespa f.