abeille

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Finnish

Noun

abeille

  1. allative plural of abi
    Tärkeää tietoa abeille
    Important information for last year high school students

French

FWOTD – 18 November 2012

Etymology

From Middle French abeille, from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.bɛj/
  • Audio (France, Paris):(file)
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  • Homophone: abeilles

Noun

abeille f (plural abeilles)

A honey bee (abeille) collecting pollen
A solitary bee (abeille)
  1. bee, honeybee
    • 1874, Victor Hugo, Quatre-Vingt-Treize:
      Alors, contentez-vous du travail comme la fourmi, et du miel comme l’abeille.
      So be happy with work, like the ant, and honey, like the bee.
    • 2012, Anne-Marie Duquette, L'Action, 10 Sep 2012:
      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 1500 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

Synonyms

Hypernyms

honey bee
insect of order hymenoptera

Derived terms

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See also

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References

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula, diminutive of apis (“bee”). The native development of apis survived into Old French as ef, later és.

Noun

abeille f (plural abeilles)

  1. honey bee (Apis mellifera).

Synonyms

Descendants

  • French: abeille

See also

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