abies

From the genus name Abies.

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

abies (plural abies)

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

• Baise

• abiès

Borrowed from Latin abies.

• IPA^(key): /a.bjɛs/

abies m (plural abies)

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

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)

• 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

• “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)‎, 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.