Φᾶσις

See also: φάσις

Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Pre-Greek hydronym of an uncertain language; possibly Proto-Georgian-Zan *Poti, Svan *Pasid, or Semitic.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰâː.sis/ → /ˈɸa.sis/ → /ˈfa.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰâː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.sis/

Proper noun

Φᾶσῐς • (Phâsĭs) m (genitive Φᾱ́σῐος); third declension

1. the river Phasis; the river Rioni

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Φᾶσῐς; τοῦ Φᾱ́σῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φᾶσῐς ho Phâsĭs
Genitive	τοῦ Φᾱ́σῐος toû Phā́sĭos
Dative	τῷ Φᾱ́σῑ tōî Phā́sī
Accusative	τὸν Φᾶσῐν tòn Phâsĭn
Vocative	Φᾶσῐ Phâsĭ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• Otar Lordkipanidze (2000), Phasis: The River and City in Colchis. Franz Steiner Verlag