φῦσα

See also: φύσα

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰŷː.sa/ → /ˈɸy.sa/ → /ˈfi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰŷː.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸy.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfy.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.sa/

Etymology 1

The exact root cannot be determined. As a pre-form, one might assume φυ-, φυσ-, φυτ- or φυκ-, but none of these can be shown to have existed in Greek. Comparisons are made with Old Armenian փուք (pʻukʻ, “breath, wind, fart”), Sanskrit फूत्करोति (phūtkaroti, “to puff, blow”) and फुफुस (phuphusa, “lungs”). One may connect Latin pustula (“bladder”), Old Church Slavonic пухати (puxati, “to blow”), Sanskrit पुष्यति (puṣyati, “to thrive, prosper”). Despite the existence of all this Indo-European material, the word may well have a Pre-Greek origin; note for examples the suffix of φῦσιγξ (phûsinx). There is hardly any evidence for Proto-Indo-European *bʰus-.

Noun

φῦσᾰ • (phûsa) f (genitive φῡ́σης); first declension

1. (mostly in the plural) pair of bellows; smithies
2. (anatomy) bladder

   Synonym: κύστις (kústis)

3. pouch of the beaver
4. breath, wind, blast
5. wind in the body, flatus
6. (of fire) stream, jet
7. bubble
8. crater of a volcano
9. (botany) calyx of φυσαλλίς (phusallís)
10. kind of fish found in the Nile

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῦσᾰ; τῆς φῡ́σης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῦσᾰ hē phûsa	τὼ φῡ́σᾱ tṑ phū́sā	αἱ φῦσαι hai phûsai
Genitive	τῆς φῡ́σης tês phū́sēs	τοῖν φῡ́σαιν toîn phū́sain	τῶν φῡσῶν tôn phūsôn
Dative	τῇ φῡ́σῃ têi phū́sēi	τοῖν φῡ́σαιν toîn phū́sain	ταῖς φῡ́σαις taîs phū́sais
Accusative	τὴν φῦσᾰν tḕn phûsan	τὼ φῡ́σᾱ tṑ phū́sā	τᾱ̀ς φῡ́σᾱς tā̀s phū́sās
Vocative	φῦσᾰ phûsa	φῡ́σᾱ phū́sā	φῦσαι phûsai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄφῡσος (áphūsos)
• φῦσῐγξ (phûsinx)
• φῠ́σκη (phúskē)
• φῠστή (phustḗ)
• φῡ́σημᾰ (phū́sēma)
• φῡ́σησῐς (phū́sēsis)
• φῡσητήρ (phūsētḗr)
• φῡσητής (phūsētḗs)
• φῡσητός (phūsētós)
• φῡσήφρων (phūsḗphrōn)
• φῡσόβᾰθρον (phūsóbathron)
• φῡσοειδής (phūsoeidḗs)
• φῡσόομαι (phūsóomai)
• φῡσώδης (phūsṓdēs)
• φῡσᾰλέος (phūsaléos)
• φῡσᾰ́λλῐς (phūsállis)
• φῡσᾰλος (phūsalos)
• φῡσᾰ́ρῐον (phūsárion)
• φῡσᾰσμός (phūsasmós)
• φῡσᾰ́ω (phūsáō)
• φῡσῐ́όω (phūsíóō)
• φῡσῐ́ωσῐς (phūsíōsis)
• φῡσῐᾰσμός (phūsiasmós)
• φῡσῐ́ᾱμᾰ (phūsíāma)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Physostigma

Further reading

• “φῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φῦσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φῦσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

φῦσᾰ • (phûsa)

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of φῡ́ς (phū́s)