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abeille

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See also: abeillé and Abeille

Finnish

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Noun

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abeille

  1. allative plural of abi
    Tärkeää tietoa abeille
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Etymology

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Une abeille recueillant du pollenA honey bee collecting pollen.
Une abeille solitaireA solitary bee

    Inherited from Middle French abeille, from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula, diminutive of apis. Displaced Old French ef.

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    abeille f (plural abeilles)

    1. bee, honey bee
      Synonym: mouche à miel (literary)
      Je me suis fait piquer par une abeille.
      I got stung by a bee.
      • 1874, Victor Hugo, “Le cachot [The Dungeon]” (chapter V), Féodalité et révolution [Feudalism and Revolution] (part III, book 7), in Quatrevingt-treize [Ninety-Three]:
        Alors, contentez-vous du travail comme la fourmi, et du miel comme l’abeille.
        So be happy with work like the ant, and with 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 1 500 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.
    2. (figuratively) a writer whose style is considered pure like honey (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    3. (dated, World War I) bullet

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    (insect of order Hymenoptera):

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    • Esperanto: abelo
      • Ido: abelo

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    Middle French

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      Borrowed from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula.

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      abeille f (plural abeilles)

      1. honey bee (Apis mellifera).

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      • French: abeille (see there for further descendants)

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