abete

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Galician

Verb

abete

  1. inflection of abetar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Alternative forms

  • abeto (dialectal or archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *abētem, from Classical Latin abietem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbe.te/
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Hyphenation: a‧bé‧te

Noun

abete m (plural abeti)

  1. fir, fir tree, particularly the silver fir (Abies alba)
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 133–135; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      e come abete in alto si digrada
      di ramo in ramo, così quello in giuso,
      cred’ io, perché persona sù non vada.
      And even as a fir-tree tapers upward from bough to bough, so downwardly did that; I think in order that no one might climb it.
  2. deal (fir wood)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • abete in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • abete on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Anagrams

Portuguese

Noun

abete m (plural abetes)

  1. (obsolete or regional) Alternative form of abeto

Spanish

Noun

abete m (plural abetes)

  1. Obsolete form of abeto.
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