apis1
Meaning
- femininebee (insect of the clade Anthophila)
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.2 CE, Ovidius, Ars Amatoria 1.95
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
parvum animal quod mel facit; apēs in ūnā domō multae habitant.animal volāns quod mel facitDeclension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | apis apicula | apēs apiculae |
| genitive | apis apiculae | apum apium, apiculārum |
| dative | apī apiculae | apibus apiculīs |
| accusative | apem apiculam | apēs apīs, apiculās |
| ablative | ape apiculā | apibus apiculīs |
| vocative | apis apicula | apēs apiculae |
the form apum, Liv. 21, 46, 2; 24, 10, 11; Col. 8, 1, 4; 9, 2, 2; Pall. Apr. 8, 2; id. Jun. 7, 1; Aug. 7. Of the seven examples in Cicero, Ac. 2, 17, 54; 2, 38, 120; Div. 1, 33, 73; Sen. 15, 54; Off. 1, 44, 157; Har. Resp. 12, 25 bis, the form apium is quite certain or has preponderating MS. authority) [kindred with old Germ. Bia, Imbi; Germ. Biene, Imme; Engl. bee], a bee: apis aculeus, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: sicut apes solent persequi, Vulg. Deut. 1, 44: examen apium, a swarm of, Cic. Har. Resp. 12, 25: examen apum, Liv. 24, 10, 11, and Vulg. Jud. 14, 8: apes leves, Tib. 2, 1, 49; so Verg. G. 4, 54: florilegae, Ov. M. 15, 366: melliferae, id. ib. 15, 387: parcae, frugal, Verg. G. 1, 4: apis sedula, the busy bee, Ov. M. 13, 298 (cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 21): apum reges (their sovereign being regarded by the ancients as a male), Col. 9, 10, 1; so Verg. G. 4, 68 et saep.: Attica apis, Ov. Tr. 5, 4, 30: fingunt favos, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 157: confingunt favos, Plin. 11, 5, 4, § 11: condunt examina, Verg. G. 2, 452: exeunt ad opera, Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 14: insidunt floribus, Verg. A. 6, 708: tulit collectos femine flores, Ov. M. 13, 928: mellificant, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 59: mella faciunt, id. ib.: stridunt, Verg. G. 4, 556.— Their habits are described in Varr. R. R. 3, 16 sqq.; Verg. G. 4, 1 sqq.; Col. 9, 2 sqq.; Plin. 11, 5 sqq.; Pall. 1, 37 sqq. al.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Uncertain. Traditionally hypothesized as from Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “stinging or biting insect”), German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), and Old English imbe (“swarm of bees”). However, it has characteristics of a European substrate word. Any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (whence fūcus (“drone”)) is phonetically impossible. 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 Osco-Umbrian loan from an original *akuis (“sharp, stinging”), as the Osco-Umbrian reflex of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin ⟨qu⟩ is regularly /p/; compare aqui- (“sharp”) in aquifolius and aquilinus.
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