apis

Uncertain.^[1] Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), Old English imbe. Phonetically impossible is any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰi- which gave instead fūcus ‘drone’. Another hypothesis suggests an Oscan-Umbrian loan from an original *akuis (“sharp, stinging”) (e.g. Latin aqui- (“sharp”) in aquifolius, aquilinus); the Osco-Umbrian reflex of Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin <qu> is regularly /p/.

apis f (genitive apis); third declension

A bee.
- 2 CE, Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.95:
  aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant
  or as the bees, when they have found plants to plunder of their honey, hover hither and thither among the thyme and the flowers

^ Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 47.

apis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
apis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
apis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
apis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
apis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
apis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
apis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
apis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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