apis

See also: APIs, Apis, and apɨš

Catalan

Noun

apis

1. plural of api

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

apis

1. prison

Declension

Declension of apis

nominative	apis
genitive	apisniñ
dative	apiske
accusative	apisni
locative	apiste
ablative	apisten

Synonyms

• türme

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Latin

apis (a bee)

Alternative forms

• apēs

Etymology

Uncertain. 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 *bʰey- 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/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pis/, [ˈäpɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pis/, [ˈäːpis]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

apis f (genitive apis); third declension

1. 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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apis	apēs
Genitive	apis	apum apium
Dative	apī	apibus
Accusative	apem	apēs apīs
Ablative	ape	apibus
Vocative	apis	apēs

Derived terms

• apiāgo
• apian
• apiānus
• apiārium
• apiārius
• apiastra
• apīcius
• apicolus
• apicula
• apium

 

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: juopa, juo
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: apa, aba, abba
  • Italian: ape
  • Neapolitan: apa, lapa
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: âf, âv
  • Piedmontese: aif
  • Venetian: ava
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal:

    Fribourgeois: âp

    Lyonnais: âve

    Neuchâtelois: àp

  • Old French: ef
    • Picard: é
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: aps (Gascon)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ape, abe, abi
  • Sicilian: lapa

See also

• crabro
• mel
• vespa f

References

• “apis”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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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Occitan

Noun

apis

1. plural of api