fas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fas"

Translingual

Symbol

fas

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Persian.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Etymology 2

From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.

Noun

fas (plural fases)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A border or fringe.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A thing represented as being worthless.

   Not worth a fas

Anagrams

• AFS, AFs, ASF, FSA, SAF, SFA, asf

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfas]
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of fer

Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facer

Etymology 2

Noun

fas m pl

1. plural of fa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːs

Verb

fas

1. singular imperative of fasen

Hlai

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai, Baoding) IPA^(key): /fa˩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hlai *fʰaːʔ (“sky”), from Pre-Hlai *faːʔ (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *vaːꟲ (“sky; weather”) (whence Thai ฟ้า (fáa)).

Noun

fas

1. sky

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hlai *C-waːʔ (“sour”), from Pre-Hlai *C-waːʔ (Norquest, 2015).

Adjective

fas

1. sour

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːs/

  Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

fas n (genitive singular fass, no plural)

1. deportment, manner

Declension

declension of fas

n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	fas	fasið
accusative	fas	fasið
dative	fasi	fasinu
genitive	fass	fassins

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfas]
• Hyphenation: fas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas (first-person possessive fasku, second-person possessive fasmu, third-person possessive fasnya)

1. Alternative spelling of vas (“vase”)

Jamaican Creole

Adjective

fas

1. Alternative spelling of fast.
   • 2005, Norman Grindley, “AUCTION - Impounded vehicles to go on sale”, in The Jamaica Star‎^[1] (in English):

     “Mine in deh bout eight weeks now an' mi nuh have no money fi clear so mi mek up mi min' not fi clear it cause a $40,000 mi pay fi get it back di other day an' dem tek it now an' judge seh mi fi pay $30,000. Mi caan fin' dat amount of money so fas. […] ”

     Mine has been there for about eight weeks and I don't have any money to pay the fine. So I decided not to pay it because I paid $40,000 to get it back the other day and they've taken it again. The judge said I have to pay $30,000. I can't find that kind of money so fast. […]

Latin

FWOTD – 20 November 2012

Alternative forms

• phās (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fās, possibly Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), whence also for, fārī. But Beekes thinks there is "no convincing etymology" for Latin fas and Greek ὁσία.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faːs/, [fäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fas/, [fäs]

Noun

fās n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. iūs, human law), or an obligation thereunder

   hoc contra ius fasque est

   this is against law and divine law

   • (Can we date this quote?), Corpus Reformatorum‎^[2], volume 38, page 235:

     Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.

     And so if divine law is that the father, or the son, the uncle or the nephew are not to have a wife in marriage, it comes together as one and the same thing about the brother's wife: from which a similar law is conveyed by means of connecting and grasping [a pattern].

2. (uncountable) divine will or right, the will of God or heaven; a predetermined destiny
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.205–206:

     “Latium [...]: illīc fās rēgna resurgere Troiae.”

     “Latium [...]: there it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.”

3. (uncountable) right, proper, allowable, lawful, fit, permitted, permissible, possible
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.7–8:

     fās mihi praecipuē voltūs vīdisse deōrum,
     vel quia sum vātēs, vel quia sacra canō.

     [It is] permissible, for me especially, to have seen the faces of the gods, either because I am a poet, or because I sing sacred [themes].

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	fās
Genitive	—
Dative	—
Accusative	fās
Ablative	—
Vocative	—

Derived terms

• fāstus
• nefās

References

• “fas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
    
• “fas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203

Middle English

Noun

fas

1. Alternative form of fass

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *vëstē.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈfas/

Adverb

fas

1. again, once more
2. on the other hand

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fas

1. imperative of fase

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑs/

Noun

fas n

1. Alternative form of fæs

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fas c

1. a phase, a time period
2. a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)

   i fas, ur fas

   in phase, out of phase

3. a sloping edge

Declension

Declension of fas
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fas	fasen	faser	faserna
Genitive	fas	fasens	fasers	fasernas

Related terms

• fasa
• fasett

Descendants

• → Finnish: faasi

References

• fas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːs/

Etymology 1

From English vase.

Noun

fas f (plural fasys, not mutable)

1. vase

Etymology 2

Noun

fas

1. Soft mutation of bas.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bas	fas	mas	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 3

Adverb

fas

1. Soft mutation of mas.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mas	fas	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “fas”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wolof

Etymology

From Arabic فَرَس (faras).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fas (definite form fas wi)

1. horse