apis

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Catalan

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

Latin

apis (a bee)

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain.[1] Possibly borrowed from a reduced Semitic form *aj,[2] ultimately from Ancient Egyptian /ˁfj/ ‘bee’.[3] Phonetically impossible is any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰi- which gave instead fūcus ‘drone’. Other theories speculate an Oscan-Umbrian loan from an original *akuis (“sharp, stinging”) (e.g. Latin aqui- (“sharp”) in aquifolius, aquilinus); however, even though the Osco-Umbrian reflex of Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin <qu> is regularly /p/, an Oscan akrid ‘sharply’[4] makes this doubtful. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), Old English imbe.

Pronunciation

Noun

apis f (genitive apis); third declension

  1. A bee.
    • 2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 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 apium
Dative apī apibus
Accusative apem apēs
apīs
Ablative ape apibus
Vocative apis apēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Corsican: abba
  • Dalmatian: juopa, juop
  • Friulian: âf, âv
  • Italian: ape

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See also

References

  1. ^ Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 47.
  2. ^ Linus Brunner, Die gemeinsamen Wurzeln des semitischen und indogermanischen Wortschatzes: Versuch einer Etymologie (Bern/Munich: Francke Verlag, 1969), n. 42.
  3. ^ Theo Vennemann, “Germania Semitica: Biene und Imme: Mit einem Anhang zu lat. apis”, Sprachwissenschaft 23 (1998): 471–87.
  4. ^ de Vaan, EDLIL, 2008, 22.
  • “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 and Roman 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
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