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Ancient Greek
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/
Proper noun
Φᾶσῐς • (Phâsis) m (genitive Φᾱ́σῐος); third declension
- the river Phasis; the river Rioni
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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