abete

abete

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

• abeto (dialectal or archaic)

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

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

abete m (plural abeti)

1. fir, fir tree, particularly the silver fir (Abies alba)
   • early-mid 1310s–mid 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]‎, 2^nd 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)

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

• beate

abete m (plural abetes)

1. (obsolete or regional) Alternative form of abeto

abete m (plural abetes)

1. Obsolete form of abeto.