abeille

abeille

1. allative plural of abi

   Tärkeää tietoa abeille

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Inherited from Middle French abeille, from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula, diminutive of apis. Displaced Old French ef.

• IPA^(key): /a.bɛj/

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• (Montreal) IPA^(key): /a.bɛːj/

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• Homophone: abeilles

abeille f (plural abeilles)

1. bee, honey bee

   Synonym: mouche à miel (literary)

   Je me suis fait piquer par une abeille.

   I got stung by a bee.

   • 1874, Victor Hugo, “Le cachot [The Dungeon]” (chapter V), Féodalité et révolution [Feudalism and Revolution] (part III, book 7), in Quatrevingt-treize [Ninety-Three]:

     Alors, contentez-vous du travail comme la fourmi, et du miel comme l’abeille.

     So be happy with work like the ant, and with 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 1 500 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.

2. (figuratively) a writer whose style is considered pure like honey (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. (dated, World War I) bullet

(insect of order Hymenoptera):

• ⇒ Esperanto: abelo
  • → Ido: abelo

• “abeille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bâillée

Borrowed from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbɛʎə/

abeille f (plural abeilles)

1. honey bee (Apis mellifera).

• avete
• mousche-à-miel

• French: abeille (see there for further descendants)

• miel
• rusche