abies

From the genus name Abies.

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

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abies (plural abies or abietes)

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

• Baise, beisa

• abiès

Borrowed from Latin abies.

• IPA^(key): /a.bjɛs/

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abies m (invariable)

1. (archaic) a fir tree

• “abies”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• baies
• baise, baisé

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.^[1][2]

• (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.

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)

Third-declension noun.

• abiēgnus
• abietārius

Reflexes of an assumed variant *abētem:^[3] (cf. parētem < parietem)

• “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

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

abies

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

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