abeille
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Finnish
[edit]Noun
[edit]abeille
- allative plural of abi
- Tärkeää tietoa abeille
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- Tärkeää tietoa abeille
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French abeille, from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula, diminutive of apis (whence the Old French ef).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /a.bɛj/
Audio (Paris): (file) - (Montreal) IPA(key): /a.bɛːj/
Audio (Quebec, Montreal): (file) Audio: (file) - Homophone: abeilles
Noun
[edit]abeille f (plural abeilles)
- bee, honeybee
- Je me suis fait piquer par une abeille
- I got stung by a bee
- 1874, Victor Hugo, Quatre-Vingt-Treize:
- Alors, contentez-vous du travail comme la fourmi, et du miel comme l’abeille.
- So be happy with work, like the ant, and honey, like the bee.
- 2012 September 10, Anne-Marie Duquette, L'Action:
- Chaque ruche, en ce début d’automne, abrite quelque 15 000 abeilles, le «pic» de 50 000 étant atteint vers juillet, la reine pouvant pondre jusqu’à 1500 oeufs par jour.
- Each hive, at the start of autumn, houses some 15,000 bees, with a peak of 50,000 reached by July, the queen laying up to 1,500 eggs per day.
- (figuratively) a writer whose style is considered pure like honey
- (dated, World War I) bullet
Synonyms
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[edit]- honey bee
- insect of order hymenoptera
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “abeille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abeille f (plural abeilles)
Synonyms
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