Translation
bee
Word origin
From French abeille, which comes from Latin apicula, a little apis or bee. The Latin apis is the root behind the technical English words, so the resemblance to abeille is close and the resemblance to bee is nil.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- apicula
- English cognates
- apiary, apiculture
Examples
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Bees make honey from flowers.
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A bee stung me in the garden.
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In the field I saw many bees on the yellow flowers.
Learn this one next to mielo, because in Esperanto the pair is tidier than in English. is honey, is the animal that makes it, and the two roots stay separate the way they do in French and abeille. English hides the connection completely, so the two words have to be learned twice; here they at least come as a set, and every sentence you build about one can be rebuilt about the other.
The rest of the beekeeping vocabulary derives cleanly, which is Esperanto at its most satisfying. o is a hive, using -- for the container. o is a beekeeper, using --. o is a swarm or a colony, using -- for a collection. o is a female bee and abelreĝino the queen. You can build the entire apiary from one root plus affixes you already know, which is a fair demonstration of why Esperanto vocabulary grows faster than its word list suggests.
Note the plain accusative in . Esperanto does not need a special construction for being stung; the bee is the subject and you are the object, exactly as the world arranged it.
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