Φᾶσις
See also: φάσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pre-Greek hydronym of an uncertain language; possibly Proto-Georgian-Zan *Poti, Svan *Pasid, or Semitic.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰâː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰa.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸa.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfa.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.sis/
Proper noun
Φᾶσῐς • (Phâsĭs) m (genitive Φᾱ́σῐος); third declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Φᾱσῐᾱνός (Phāsĭānós)
- Φᾱσῐᾱνῐκός (Phāsĭānĭkós)
Descendants
- Greek: Φάσις (Fásis)
- Latin: Phāsis
References
- “Φᾶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Φᾶσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Φᾶσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
- Otar Lordkipanidze (2000), Phasis: The River and City in Colchis. Franz Steiner Verlag