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

Nominal formation in σᾶ (sâ), with the exact form and origin of the root unclear. Candidates include φυ- (phu-), φυσ- (phus-), φυτ- (phut-), or φυκ- (phuk-), but none of these can be shown to have existed in Greek.

Comparanda include Old Armenian փուք (pʻukʻ, “breath, wind, fart”) (< φυκ-ι̯α (phuk-i̯a); however, φῦσα (phûsa) cannot derive from this form), Sanskrit फूत्करोति (phūtkaroti, “to puff, blow”) (< φυτ-ι̯α (phut-i̯a)), फुफुस (phuphusa, “lungs”), as well as Latin pustula (“bladder”),Classical Persian پوگان (pūgān, “uterus”),Dari پوقانه (pōqāna, “urine bladder”),Iranian Persian پپ (pop, “lung (Qaenī dialect)”), Old Church Slavonic пухати (puxati, “to blow”), Sanskrit पुष्यति (puṣyati, “to thrive, prosper”). (< φυσ- (phus-)).

Despite the existence of all this Indo-European material, the word may well have a Pre-Greek origin, based on the suffix of the derivative φῦσιγξ (phûsinx, “heel blister”), as well as the lack of solid evidence for a Proto-Indo-European *bʰus-. Regardless, the words mentioned above, as well as the Greek term, may have onomatopoeic origins.

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

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Physostigma

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

φῦσᾰ • (phûsa)

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

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