Abies, abíetis, pen. corr. f.g. nomen arboris. A firre tree: sometime a shippe, or plancke of a shippe.Abies audax.Stat.A venterous shippe. Crispa. Cicer.Because of the roughnesse of the leafe. Enodis. Ouidius. Longa. Virgil. Nigra, Id est vmbrosa. Virgil. Tacita, hoc est vento rum flatibus non commota. Valer. Flac. Latè Vmbrosa. Claud. Vncta. Virgil. A shippe or plancke of a shippe smered or ouerlayd with pitche.Apta fretis. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăbĭēs, ĕtis (abietis, abiete, trisyllabic in poet., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44; Verg. A. 2, 16 al.; so, abietibus, quadrisyl. sometimes, as Verg. A. 9, 674), f. [etym. uncer., perh. akin to a)ldai/nw; cf. e)la/th = pinus], the silver-fir: Pinus picea, Linn.: e)la/th, the tree as well as the wood of it, Plin. 16, 10, 19, 48; Pall. 12, 15, 1: abies consternitur alta, Enn. ap. Macr. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 195 Vahl.): crispa, id. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 117 ib.): enodis, Ov. M. 10. 94. In Verg., on account of its dark foliage, called nigra: nigrā abiete, A. 3, 599: abietibus patriis aequi juvenes,
tall as their native firs
, id. ib. 9, 674 (imitation of Hom. ll. 5, 560: e)la/th|sin e)oiko/tes u(yhlh=|sin).—II.Poet., meton. (cf. Quint. 8, 6, 20), like the Greek e)la/th, any thing made of fir.1. = epistula, a letter (written on a tablet of fir), Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 66 (cf. Engl. book, i. e. beech).—2. = navis, a ship, Verg. G. 2, 68; id. A. 8, 91; cf. id. ib. 5, 663.—3. = hasta, a lance, Verg. A. 11, 667.