φάσηλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, though apparently from some European substrate. Identical to Latin phasēlus, of which the Greek is likely the etymon, though traditionally the opposite direction has also been proposed. Albanian bathë (“thick bean”), reflecting a root *bʰaḱ-, whence also φακός (phakós), has led to claims of an Illyrian source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰá.sɛː.los/ → /ˈɸa.si.los/ → /ˈfa.si.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰá.sɛː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.se̝.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.si.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.si.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.si.los/

Noun

φᾰ́σηλος • (phásēlos) m (genitive φᾰσήλου); second declension

1. cowpea

   Synonym: σμῖλαξ (smîlax)

   Hyponym: δόλιχος (dólikhos, “yardlong bean”)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φᾰ́σηλος; τοῦ φᾰσήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φᾰ́σηλος ho phásēlos	τὼ φᾰσήλω tṑ phasḗlō	οἱ φᾰ́σηλοι hoi phásēloi
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰσήλου toû phasḗlou	τοῖν φᾰσήλοιν toîn phasḗloin	τῶν φᾰσήλων tôn phasḗlōn
Dative	τῷ φᾰσήλῳ tôi phasḗlōi	τοῖν φᾰσήλοιν toîn phasḗloin	τοῖς φᾰσήλοις toîs phasḗlois
Accusative	τὸν φᾰ́σηλον tòn phásēlon	τὼ φᾰσήλω tṑ phasḗlō	τοὺς φᾰσήλους toùs phasḗlous
Vocative	φᾰ́σηλε phásēle	φᾰσήλω phasḗlō	φᾰ́σηλοι phásēloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• φασίολος (phasíolos)

Descendants

• Greek: φασόλι (fasóli)
• >? Latin: phasēlus

Further reading

• “φάσηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φάσηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φάσηλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bean idem, page 66.
• Fischer-Benzon, Rudolf von (1894) Altdeutsche Gartenflora (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, pages 98–99
• “Bohne”, in Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (in German), volume III, 1, 1897, columns 609–627