abies

See also: Abies

English

Etymology

From the genus name Abies.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæbɪˌiːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪbiˌiz/, /ˈæbiˌiz/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

abies (plural abies or abietes)

1. A tree of the genus Abies.
2. A tannin made from the barks of firs and spruces.

Translations

Translations

• French: abies (fr)
• German: Fichtengerbstoff
• Italian: abete (it)
• Portuguese: ábies
• Spanish: abeto (es)

Anagrams

• Baise, beisa

French

Alternative forms

• abiès

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin abies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bjɛs/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

abies m (invariable)

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

Latin

abiēs (a silver fir)

Etymology

Usually connected with the Ancient Greek hapax ἄβιν (ábin, “silver fir or similar conifer”), both reflecting a root *abi-, ultimately likely from a substrate source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.bi.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.bi.es]
• The oblique stem scans as ab.jĕt- (IPA^(key): [ab.jɛ.t-]) in dactylic poetry (where the pronunciation ăbĭĕt-, with three short syllables in a row, could not be used). The nominative singular scans as ăbĭēs. Compare the like treatment of ariēs and pariēs.

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.

	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

Reflexes of an assumed variant *abētem: (cf. parētem < parietem)

• Dalmatian Romance:
  • Istriot: albèo, àlbio (infl. by albus 'white')
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: abéte
  • Neapolitan: apeto
  • >? Sicilian: abbitu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: aved
  • Ligurian: aveo, avé
  • Romagnol: abét, abēt (Ville Unite)
  • Venetan: albeo (infl. by albus 'white')
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: avet
  • Old Occitan: abet, avet
    • Occitan: avet
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: abet, abete
    • → Spanish: abeto, abete (obsolete) (or from Catalan)
      • → Asturian: abetu
      • → Galician: abeto, pinabete
      • → Portuguese: abeto
      • → Tagalog: abeto
• Borrowings:
  • →⇒ English: abietic
  • → Esperanto: abio
  • → French: abies
  • → Ido: abieto

Further reading

• “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, 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Scots

Etymology

E.D.D. suggests all-be-as, but see byes. The development of meaning in 3. seems a recent extension.

Preposition

abies

1. In comparison with.
2. In addition to, besides.
3. except

References

• “abies, prep.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.