apis

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈa.pis]

apis

1. plural of api

apis

1. prison

• türme

• apēs

Uncertain.[1] 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 <qu> is regularly /p/.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pis/, [ˈäpɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pis/, [ˈäːpis]

apis f (genitive apis); third declension

1. A bee.
   • 2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 1.95:

     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.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• crabro
• mel
• vespa f

• “apis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apis 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)
• apis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “apis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “apis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “apis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

apis

1. plural of api