abete

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], 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)

Derived terms

• abetaia
• abetella
• abetina
• abetino
• abéto
• abezzo / avezzo

Further reading

• “abete”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
• abete on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• beate

Portuguese

Noun

abete m (plural abetes)

1. (obsolete or regional) alternative form of abeto

Further reading

• “abete”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “abete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Noun

abete m (plural abetes)

1. obsolete form of abeto