abete

Italian

Etymology

From Latin abiētem, accusative of abiēs (“fir, deal”), from Proto-Italic *abiets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbe.te/
• Hyphenation: a‧bé‧te

Noun

abete m (plural abeti)

1. (botany) fir, fir tree, particularly the silver fir (Abies alba)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXII, page 343, lines 130–135:

     Ma tosto ruppe le dolci ragioni ¶ un alber che trovammo in mezza strada, ¶ con pomi a odorar soavi e buoni; ¶ e come abete in alto si digrada ¶ di ramo in ramo, così quello in giuso, ¶ cred’ io, perché persona sù non vada.

     But soon their sweet discourses interrupted a tree which midway in the road we found, with apples sweet and grateful to the smell. 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

• abetaia
• abetella
• abetina
• abetino

Anagrams

• beate

References

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

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Portuguese

Noun

abete m (plural s)

1. (obsolete or regional) Alternative form of abeto

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Spanish

Noun

abete m (plural abetes)

1. Obsolete form of abeto.