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abete

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Galician

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Verb

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abete

  1. inflection of abetar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

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Alternative forms

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  • abeto (dialectal or archaic)

Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *abētem, from Classical Latin abietem.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈbe.te/
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: a‧bé‧te

Noun

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abete m (plural abeti)

  1. fir, fir tree, particularly the silver fir (Abies alba)
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 133–135; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. 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.
  2. deal (fir wood)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • abete in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • abete on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Anagrams

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Portuguese

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Noun

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abete m (plural abetes)

  1. (obsolete or regional) Alternative form of abeto

Spanish

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Noun

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abete m (plural abetes)

  1. Obsolete form of abeto.