The corpus record — Latin

abies

abies · f

the silver-fir

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
De Architectura 7 · 1.21/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 2 · 1.2/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 40 · 1.01/10k
Aeneid 6 · 0.95/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ăbĭēs — Lewis & Short

ăbĭēs, ĕtis (abietis, abiete, trisyllabic in poet., Enn. ap. f.etym. uncer., perh. akin to a)ldai/nw; cf. e)la/th = pinus,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44; Verg. A. 2, 16 al.; so, abietibus, quadrisyl. sometimes, as Verg. A. 9, 674),

I the silver-fir: Pinus picea, Linn.: e)la/th, the tree as well as the wood of it, Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 48; Pall. 12, 15, 1: abies consternitur alta, Enn. ap. Macr. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 195 Vahl.): crispa, id. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 117 ib.): enodis, Ov. M. 10. 94. In Verg., on account of its dark foliage, called nigra: nigrā abiete, A. 3, 599: abietibus patriis aequi juvenes, tall as their native firs, id. ib. 9, 674 (imitation of Hom. ll. 5, 560: e)la/th|sin e)oiko/tes u(yhlh=|sin).—

II Poet., meton. (cf. Quint. 8, 6, 20), like the Greek e)la/th, any thing made of fir.

1 = epistula, a letter (written on a tablet of fir), Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 66 (cf. Engl. book, i. e. beech).—

2 = navis, a ship, Verg. G. 2, 68; id. A. 8, 91; cf. id. ib. 5, 663.—

3 = hasta, a lance, Verg. A. 11, 667.

2. abies — Walde–Hofmann

abies (im Hexam. -é-, s. Leumann-Stolz? 264), -etis f. , Tanne* (seit Enn. u. Plaut, rom.): gr. &ftv: &Ademv, ol 5 weuknv Hes., vgl. skyth. ^Apud) — "YAaía „Name der südruss. Waldregion* (Steph. Byz.) — abiegnus Cé-?) seit Enn. u. Plaut., abieg(i)news (seit Lex par. 105 v. Chr.) gebildet nach salignus, larignus? (Havet MSL. 5, 393; anders Leumann-Stolz5 206); abietalis, -arius erst spätlat. — Weitere Anknüpfungen … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. abies, p. 36]

In the wild

abiete Silius Italicus, Punica 3.442
abiete Silius Italicus, Punica 6.352
abietibus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.405
abieti Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p11
abies Vergil, Georgicon 2.68
abiete Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.28.45.18

6 of 84 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. abies (scan p. 36; entry #66). Root candidates: *ab-, *abelo-.

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