noun

• In ancient Egyptian religion, Apis or Hapis (reconstructed as Old Egyptian with unknown final vowel >
• (Ancient Greek: Ἄπις derived from apios "far-off" or "of the pear-tree""Apis is the noun formed from apios, a Homeric adjective usually meaning ‘far off’ but, when applied to the Peloponnese (Aeschylus: Suppliants), ‘of the pear-tree’" as cited in Robert Graves' The Greek Myths) the name of a figure, or several figures, appearing in the earliest antiquity according to Greek mythology and historiography.
• Apis (Greek: , named for the god Apis), was an ancient seaport town (Polyb.