phasianus

See also: Phasianus

Latin

phāsiānī (pheasants)

Alternative forms

• phāsiāna

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pʰaː.siˈaː.nus/, [pʰäːs̠iˈäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa.siˈa.nus/, [fäs̬iˈäːnus]

Noun

phāsiānus m (genitive phāsiānī); second declension

1. pheasant (bird)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phāsiānus	phāsiānī
Genitive	phāsiānī	phāsiānōrum
Dative	phāsiānō	phāsiānīs
Accusative	phāsiānum	phāsiānōs
Ablative	phāsiānō	phāsiānīs
Vocative	phāsiāne	phāsiānī

Synonyms

• (pheasant): Phāsidis āles

Derived terms

• phāsiānārius

Related terms

• Phāsis

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fagiano
    • → Hungarian: fácán
    • → Maltese: faġan
  • Sicilian: fagianu
• Padanian:
  • Ligurian: faxàn
  • Piedmontese: fasan
  • Romagnol: fașân
  • Venetian: fajàn, faxàn
    • → Friulian: fasan
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: faisan, faisant, faisen, feisan, feisant, fesan; feisaun, fesaun, fesaunt
    • Middle French: faisan
      • French: faisan
        • → Romanian: fazan
      • Norman: faîsan (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: fesaunt, fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant
      • English: pheasant
        • → Welsh: ffesant
      • Scots: pheasant
    • → Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: faisán
    • → Middle Dutch: faisant, fasaen
      • Dutch: fazant, faisant, fasant
        • Afrikaans: fisant
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese:
      • Galician: faisán
      • Portuguese: faisão
    • → Old Spanish: faysan
      • → Spanish: faisán
        • → Tagalog: paysan
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: faisà
  • Old Occitan: faisan
    • Occitan: faisan
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: fazano
  • ⇒ Old High German: fasihuon
    • Middle High German: fasān, fasant, vasant
      • → Czech: bažant
        • → Polish: bażant
      • German: Fasan
        • → Estonian: faasan
        • → Russian: фаза́н (fazán)
        • → Serbo-Croatian: fazan
        • → Swedish: fasan
  • Translingual: Phasianus

References

• phasianus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)