"apis" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /ˈa.pis/ [Classical], [ˈäpɪs̠] [Classical], /ˈa.pis/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈäːpis] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Uncertain. Phonetically impossible is any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- which gave instead fūcus (“drone”). Traditionally also hypothesized as from Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), Old English imbe and Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “a stinging or biting insect”). However, this has characteristics of a European substrate word. 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 Oscan-Umbrian loan from an original *akuis (“sharp, stinging”) (e.g. Latin aqui- (“sharp”) in aquifolius, aquilinus); the Osco-Umbrian reflex of Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin is regularly /p/. Etymology templates: {{unc|la}} Uncertain, {{m+|ine-pro|*bʰey-|w=1}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-, {{m|la|fūcus||drone}} fūcus (“drone”), {{der|la|ine-pro||*e/a(m)p-i-|stinging insect; bee}} Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), {{cog|de|Imme||bee; swarm of bees}} German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), {{cog|ang|imbe}} Old English imbe, {{cog|grc|ἐμπίς||a stinging or biting insect}} Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “a stinging or biting insect”), {{der|la|qfa-sub}} substrate, {{der|la|sem|-}} Semitic, {{cog|egy|ꜥfj||bee}} Egyptian ꜥfj (“bee”), {{m+|osc|-|w=1}} Oscan, {{m+|xum|-|w=1}} Umbrian, {{m|und||akuis|sharp, stinging}} akuis (“sharp, stinging”), {{cog|la|acus|aqui-|sharp}} Latin aqui- (“sharp”), {{m|la|aquifolius}} aquifolius, {{m|la|aquilinus}} aquilinus Head templates: {{la-noun|apis<3>|g=f}} apis f (genitive apis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|apis<3>|gen_pl=apum/apium}} Forms: apis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], apis [nominative, singular], apēs [nominative, plural], apis [genitive, singular], apum [genitive, plural], apium [genitive, plural], apī [dative, singular], apibus [dative, plural], apem [accusative, singular], apēs [accusative, plural], apīs [accusative, plural], ape [ablative, singular], apibus [ablative, plural], apis [singular, vocative], apēs [plural, vocative]
  1. A bee. Tags: declension-3, feminine Categories (lifeform): Insects Synonyms: apēs Derived forms: apian, apiastra, apicolus, apicula, apium, apiāgo, apiānus, apiārium, apiārius, apīcius Related terms: crabro, mel, vespa [feminine]

Inflected forms

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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Dalmatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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          "args": {
            "1": "dlm",
            "2": "juopa",
            "alts": "1",
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      "text": "juopa, juop, yuopa, yuop, iuopa, iuop"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "co",
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            "3": "aba",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Corsican: apa, aba, abba"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "ape"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: ape",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: ape"
    },
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nap",
            "2": "apa",
            "3": "lapa"
          },
          "expansion": "Neapolitan: apa, lapa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Neapolitan: apa, lapa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sdc",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Sassarese: abi, aba"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: lapa"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Insular Romance:"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian:",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian:"
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      "depth": 2,
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          "args": {
            "1": "sc-src",
            "2": "abe"
          },
          "expansion": "Logudorese: abe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Logudorese: abe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-nuo",
            "2": "ape"
          },
          "expansion": "Nuorese: ape",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Nuorese: ape"
    },
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        {
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          "expansion": "Campidanese: abi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Campidanese: abi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "North Italian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "aif"
          },
          "expansion": "Piedmontese: aif",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Piedmontese: aif"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rgn",
            "2": "êva",
            "3": "eva",
            "qq2": "Ville Unite"
          },
          "expansion": "Romagnol: êva, eva (Ville Unite)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romagnol: êva, eva (Ville Unite)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "âf",
            "3": "âv"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: âf, âv",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: âf, âv"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "eva",
            "3": "ê"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: eva, ê",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: eva, ê"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "ava"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: ava",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: ava"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frp",
            "2": "âp",
            "3": "âve",
            "4": "àp",
            "qq1": "Fribourgeois",
            "qq2": "Lyonnais",
            "qq3": "Neuchâtelois"
          },
          "expansion": "Franco-Provençal: âp (Fribourgeois), âve (Lyonnais), àp (Neuchâtelois)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Franco-Provençal: âp (Fribourgeois), âve (Lyonnais), àp (Neuchâtelois)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc-gas",
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            "qq1": "with retention of nominative singular /s/?"
          },
          "expansion": "Gascon: aps (with retention of nominative singular /s/?)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gascon: aps (with retention of nominative singular /s/?)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
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          },
          "expansion": "Old French: ef, e, ep\nPicard: é",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: ef, e, ep\nPicard: é"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "la"
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      "expansion": "Uncertain",
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    },
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      },
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      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "fūcus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "drone"
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    },
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "bee; swarm of bees"
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "imbe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English imbe",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἐμπίς",
        "3": "",
        "4": "a stinging or biting insect"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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      "expansion": "substrate",
      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "sem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Semitic",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "egy",
        "2": "ꜥfj",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bee"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian ꜥfj (“bee”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osc",
        "2": "-",
        "w": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Oscan",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xum",
        "2": "-",
        "w": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Umbrian",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "und",
        "2": "",
        "3": "akuis",
        "4": "sharp, stinging"
      },
      "expansion": "akuis (“sharp, stinging”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "acus",
        "3": "aqui-",
        "4": "sharp"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aqui- (“sharp”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "aquifolius"
      },
      "expansion": "aquifolius",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "aquilinus"
      },
      "expansion": "aquilinus",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Phonetically impossible is any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- which gave instead fūcus (“drone”). Traditionally also hypothesized as from Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), Old English imbe and Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “a stinging or biting insect”). However, this has characteristics of a European substrate word. 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 Oscan-Umbrian loan from an original *akuis (“sharp, stinging”) (e.g. Latin aqui- (“sharp”) in aquifolius, aquilinus); the Osco-Umbrian reflex of Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin is regularly /p/.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ape",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "apis<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "apis f (genitive apis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "apis<3>",
        "gen_pl": "apum/apium"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Undetermined language links",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Insects",
          "orig": "la:Insects",
          "parents": [
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "apian"
        },
        {
          "word": "apiastra"
        },
        {
          "word": "apicolus"
        },
        {
          "word": "apicula"
        },
        {
          "word": "apium"
        },
        {
          "word": "apiāgo"
        },
        {
          "word": "apiānus"
        },
        {
          "word": "apiārium"
        },
        {
          "word": "apiārius"
        },
        {
          "word": "apīcius"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Or as the bees, when they have found plants to plunder of their honey, hover hither and thither among the thyme and the flowers.",
          "ref": "2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 1.95",
          "text": "Aut ut apēs saltūsque suōs et olentia nactae / pāscua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bee."
      ],
      "id": "en-apis-la-noun-1pCeCkDh",
      "links": [
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "crabro"
        },
        {
          "word": "mel"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vespa"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "apēs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.pis/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäpɪs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.pis/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäːpis]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "apis"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "apian"
    },
    {
      "word": "apiastra"
    },
    {
      "word": "apicolus"
    },
    {
      "word": "apicula"
    },
    {
      "word": "apium"
    },
    {
      "word": "apiāgo"
    },
    {
      "word": "apiānus"
    },
    {
      "word": "apiārium"
    },
    {
      "word": "apiārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "apīcius"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Dalmatian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dlm",
            "2": "juopa",
            "alts": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "juopa, juop, yuopa, yuop, iuopa, iuop",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "juopa, juop, yuopa, yuop, iuopa, iuop"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "co",
            "2": "apa",
            "3": "aba",
            "4": "abba"
          },
          "expansion": "Corsican: apa, aba, abba",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Corsican: apa, aba, abba"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "ape"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: ape",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: ape"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nap",
            "2": "apa",
            "3": "lapa"
          },
          "expansion": "Neapolitan: apa, lapa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Neapolitan: apa, lapa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sdc",
            "2": "abi",
            "3": "aba"
          },
          "expansion": "Sassarese: abi, aba",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sassarese: abi, aba"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "lapa"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: lapa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: lapa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Insular Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian:",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-src",
            "2": "abe"
          },
          "expansion": "Logudorese: abe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Logudorese: abe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-nuo",
            "2": "ape"
          },
          "expansion": "Nuorese: ape",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Nuorese: ape"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc-sro",
            "2": "abi"
          },
          "expansion": "Campidanese: abi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Campidanese: abi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "North Italian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Italic:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pms",
            "2": "aif"
          },
          "expansion": "Piedmontese: aif",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Piedmontese: aif"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rgn",
            "2": "êva",
            "3": "eva",
            "qq2": "Ville Unite"
          },
          "expansion": "Romagnol: êva, eva (Ville Unite)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romagnol: êva, eva (Ville Unite)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "âf",
            "3": "âv"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: âf, âv",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: âf, âv"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "eva",
            "3": "ê"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: eva, ê",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: eva, ê"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "ava"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: ava",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: ava"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "frp",
            "2": "âp",
            "3": "âve",
            "4": "àp",
            "qq1": "Fribourgeois",
            "qq2": "Lyonnais",
            "qq3": "Neuchâtelois"
          },
          "expansion": "Franco-Provençal: âp (Fribourgeois), âve (Lyonnais), àp (Neuchâtelois)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Franco-Provençal: âp (Fribourgeois), âve (Lyonnais), àp (Neuchâtelois)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc-gas",
            "2": "aps",
            "qq1": "with retention of nominative singular /s/?"
          },
          "expansion": "Gascon: aps (with retention of nominative singular /s/?)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gascon: aps (with retention of nominative singular /s/?)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "ef"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: ef, e, ep\nPicard: é",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: ef, e, ep\nPicard: é"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*bʰey-",
        "w": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "fūcus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "drone"
      },
      "expansion": "fūcus (“drone”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*e/a(m)p-i-",
        "5": "stinging insect; bee"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Imme",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bee; swarm of bees"
      },
      "expansion": "German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "imbe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English imbe",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἐμπίς",
        "3": "",
        "4": "a stinging or biting insect"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “a stinging or biting insect”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "qfa-sub"
      },
      "expansion": "substrate",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "sem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Semitic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "egy",
        "2": "ꜥfj",
        "3": "",
        "4": "bee"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian ꜥfj (“bee”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osc",
        "2": "-",
        "w": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Oscan",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xum",
        "2": "-",
        "w": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Umbrian",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "und",
        "2": "",
        "3": "akuis",
        "4": "sharp, stinging"
      },
      "expansion": "akuis (“sharp, stinging”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "acus",
        "3": "aqui-",
        "4": "sharp"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin aqui- (“sharp”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "aquifolius"
      },
      "expansion": "aquifolius",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "aquilinus"
      },
      "expansion": "aquilinus",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Phonetically impossible is any connection with Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- which gave instead fūcus (“drone”). Traditionally also hypothesized as from Proto-Indo-European *e/a(m)p-i- (“stinging insect; bee”), related to German Imme (“bee; swarm of bees”), Old English imbe and Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís, “a stinging or biting insect”). However, this has characteristics of a European substrate word. 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 Oscan-Umbrian loan from an original *akuis (“sharp, stinging”) (e.g. Latin aqui- (“sharp”) in aquifolius, aquilinus); the Osco-Umbrian reflex of Proto-Indo-European labiovelar */kʷ/ that gives Latin is regularly /p/.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ape",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "apēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "apis<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "apis f (genitive apis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "apis<3>",
        "gen_pl": "apum/apium"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "crabro"
    },
    {
      "word": "mel"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vespa"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "Latin feminine nouns",
        "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms derived from Semitic languages",
        "Latin terms derived from substrate languages",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin terms with unknown etymologies",
        "Latin third declension nouns",
        "Undetermined language links",
        "la:Insects"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Or as the bees, when they have found plants to plunder of their honey, hover hither and thither among the thyme and the flowers.",
          "ref": "2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 1.95",
          "text": "Aut ut apēs saltūsque suōs et olentia nactae / pāscua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bee."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.pis/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäpɪs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈa.pis/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈäːpis]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "apēs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "apis"
}

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