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5-letter words (1 found)

ABIES,

4-letter words (6 found)

BAES,BASE,BIAS,BISE,ISBA,SABE,

3-letter words (13 found)

ABS,AIS,BAE,BAS,BES,BIS,EAS,SAB,SAE,SAI,SEA,SEI,SIB,

2-letter words (11 found)

AB,AE,AI,AS,BA,BE,BI,EA,ES,IS,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 32 words from abies according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of abies

abies

Etymology

From the genus name Abies.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.biˌiz/, /ˈæ.biˌiz/

Noun

abies (plural abies)

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

Translations

Anagrams

  • Baise

French

Alternative forms

  • abiès

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abies.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.bjɛs/

Noun

abies m (plural abies)

  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

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) IPA(key): /ˈa.bi.eːs/, [ˈäbieːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.bi.es/, [ˈäːbies]

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.

Derived terms

  • abiēgnus
  • abietārius

Descendants

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

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

References

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’s 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)‎[2], 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.

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