apis

See also: APIs, Apis, and apɨš

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pis/

Noun

apis

1. plural of api

Crimean Tatar

Noun

apis

1. prison

Declension

Declension of apis

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

Synonyms

• türme

Latin

apis (a bee)

Alternative forms

• apēs

Etymology

Uncertain. Phonetically impossible is any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- which gave instead fūcus (“drone”). Traditionally also hypothesized as from Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), Old English imbe and Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “a stinging or biting insect”). However, this has characteristics of a European substrate word. According to Vennemann's Atlantic substrate theory, the ultimate source may be a Semitic word cognate with Egyptian ꜥfj (“bee”) (though no attested Semitic cognates survive); de Vaan finds this plausible. 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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pis/, [ˈäːpis]

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Noun

apis f (genitive apis); third declension

1. A bee.
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.95:

     Aut ut apēs saltūsque suōs et olentia nactae / pāscua 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

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

 

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • juopa, juop, yuopa, yuop, iuopa, iuop
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: apa, aba, abba
  • Italian: ape
  • Neapolitan: apa, lapa
  • Sicilian: lapa
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:

    Logudorese: abe

    Nuorese: ape

    Campidanese: abi

  • Sassarese: abi, aba
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: aif
    • Romagnol: êva, eva (Ville Unite)
  • Friulian: âf, âv
  • Ladin: eva, ê
  • Venetian: ava
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: âp (Fribourgeois), âve (Lyonnais), àp (Neuchâtelois)
  • Gascon: aps (with retention of nominative singular /s/?)
  • Old French: ef, e, ep
    • Picard: é

See also

• crabro
• mel
• vespa f

References

• “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 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

Occitan

Noun

apis

1. plural of api