φάσις

See also: Φᾶσις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰá.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/

Etymology 1

From φαίνω (phaínō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Noun

φᾰ́σῐς • (phắsĭs) f (genitive φᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. appearance

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φᾰ́σῐς; τῆς φᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φᾰ́σῐς hē phắsĭs	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phắsei	αἱ φᾰ́σεις hai phắseis
Genitive	τῆς φᾰ́σεως tês phắseōs	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phăséoin	τῶν φᾰ́σεων tôn phắseōn
Dative	τῇ φᾰ́σει tēî phắsei	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phăséoin	ταῖς φᾰ́σεσῐ / φᾰ́σεσῐν taîs phắsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν φᾰ́σῐν tḕn phắsĭn	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phắsei	τᾱ̀ς φᾰ́σεις tā̀s phắseis
Vocative	φᾰ́σῐ phắsĭ	φᾰ́σει phắsei	φᾰ́σεις phắseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀντέμφασις (antémphasis)
• ἀπέμφασις (apémphasis)
• ἀπόφασις (apóphasis)
• διάφασις (diáphasis)
• ἔμφασις (émphasis)
• ἐπίφασις (epíphasis)
• παράφασις (paráphasis)
• παρέμφασις (parémphasis)
• περίφασις (períphasis)
• προέμφασις (proémphasis)
• πρόφασις (próphasis)
• σύμφασις (súmphasis)
• συνέμφασις (sunémphasis)
• ὑπόφασις (hupóphasis)

Descendants

• Greek: φάση (fási)
• → New Latin: phasis
  • → Albanian: fazë
  • → Asturian: fase
  • → Belarusian: фаза (faza)
  • → Bulgarian: фаза (faza)
  • → Catalan: fase
  • → Czech: fáze
  • → Danish: fase
  • → English: phase, phasis
  • → French: phase (see there for further descendants)
  • → Galician: fase
  • → German: Phase, Phasis (obsolete)
    • → Estonian: faas
  • → Hungarian: fázis
  • → Italian: fase
  • → Kyrgyz: фаза (faza)
  • → Latvian: fāze
  • → Lithuanian: fazė
  • → Macedonian: фаза (faza)
  • → Persian: فاز (fâz)
  • → Polish: faza
  • → Portuguese: fase
  • → Russian: фаза (faza) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: фаза / faza
  • → Slovak: fáza
  • → Slovene: faza
  • → Spanish: fase
  • → Swedish: fas
    • → Finnish: faasi
  • → Ukrainian: фаза (faza)
  • → Uzbek: faza

References

• “φάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

From φημί (phēmí) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Noun

φᾰ́σῐς • (phắsĭs) f (genitive φᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. utterance, statement, expression

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φᾰ́σῐς; τῆς φᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φᾰ́σῐς hē phắsĭs	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phắsei	αἱ φᾰ́σεις hai phắseis
Genitive	τῆς φᾰ́σεως tês phắseōs	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phăséoin	τῶν φᾰ́σεων tôn phắseōn
Dative	τῇ φᾰ́σει tēî phắsei	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phăséoin	ταῖς φᾰ́σεσῐ / φᾰ́σεσῐν taîs phắsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν φᾰ́σῐν tḕn phắsĭn	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phắsei	τᾱ̀ς φᾰ́σεις tā̀s phắseis
Vocative	φᾰ́σῐ phắsĭ	φᾰ́σει phắsei	φᾰ́σεις phắseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀντίφασις (antíphasis)
• ἀπόφασις (apóphasis)
• ἔκφασις (ékphasis)
• κατάφασις (katáphasis)
• παράφασις (paráphasis)
• συναπόφασις (sunapóphasis)
• ὑπεραπόφασις (huperapóphasis)

References

• “φάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φάσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5334 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affirmation idem, page 16.