φάσις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From φαίνω (phaínō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Noun

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

1. appearance

Inflection

Derived terms

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
    • → 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 • (phásis) f (genitive φᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. utterance, statement, expression

Inflection

Derived terms

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.