abies

See also: Abies

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• abyes

Verb

abies

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of aby

Etymology 2

From the genus name Abies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.biˌiz/, /ˈæ.biˌiz/

Noun

abies (plural abies)

1. A tree of the genus Abies.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bjɛs/

Noun

abies m (plural abies)

1. (archaic) A fir tree.

Further reading

• “abies”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• baies
• baise, baisé

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Latin

abiēs (a silver fir)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *abiets, probably related to Ancient Greek ἄβιν (ábin, “silver fir or similar conifer”, acc. m/f). Possibly both are borrowings from the same source, but IE origins have also been suggested.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bi.eːs/, [ˈäbieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.bi.es/, [ˈäːbies]

Noun

abiēs f (genitive abietis); third declension

1. the silver fir (Abies alba), the silver-fir's wood
2. (poetic) anything made of deal (fir wood)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abiēs	abietēs
Genitive	abietis	abietum
Dative	abietī	abietibus
Accusative	abietem	abietēs
Ablative	abiete	abietibus
Vocative	abiēs	abietēs

Derived terms

• abiēgnus
• abietārius

Descendants

• Asturian: abetu
• Catalan: avet
• English: abietic
• French: abies
• Esperanto: abio
• Ido: abieto

• Italian: abete
• Occitan: avet
• Portuguese: abeto
• Spanish: abeto

References

• “abies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• abies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• abies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN