φάσις

See also: Φᾶσις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰá.sis/ → /ˈɸa.sis/ → /ˈfa.sis/

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

Etymology 1

From φαίνω (phaínō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Noun

φᾰ́σῐς • (phásis) f (genitive φᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. appearance

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φᾰ́σῐς; τῆς φᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φᾰ́σῐς hē phásis	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phásei	αἱ φᾰ́σεις hai pháseis
Genitive	τῆς φᾰ́σεως tês pháseōs	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phaséoin	τῶν φᾰ́σεων tôn pháseōn
Dative	τῇ φᾰ́σει têi phásei	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phaséoin	ταῖς φᾰ́σεσῐ / φᾰ́σεσῐν taîs phásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φᾰ́σῐν tḕn phásin	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phásei	τᾱ̀ς φᾰ́σεις tā̀s pháseis
Vocative	φᾰ́σῐ phási	φᾰ́σει phásei	φᾰ́σεις pháseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ἀντέμφασις (antémphasis)
• ἀπέμφασις (apémphasis)
• ἀπόφασις (apóphasis)
• διάφασις (diáphasis)
• ἔμφασις (émphasis)

• ἐπίφασις (epíphasis)
• παράφασις (paráphasis)
• παρέμφασις (parémphasis)
• περίφασις (períphasis)
• προέμφασις (proémphasis)

• πρόφασις (próphasis)
• σύμφασις (súmphasis)
• συνέμφασις (sunémphasis)
• ὑπόφασις (hupóphasis)

Descendants

• Greek: φάση (fási)
• → New Latin: phasis
  • → Albanian: fazë
  • → Asturian: fase
  • → Belarusian: фаза (faza)
  • → Bulgarian: фаза (faza)
  • → Catalan: fase
  • → Czech: fáze
  • → Danish: fase
  • → English: phase, phasis
  • → French: phase (see there for further descendants)
  • → Galician: fase
  • → German: Phase
    • → Estonian: faas
  • → Hungarian: fázis
  • → Italian: fase
  • → Kyrgyz: фаза (faza)
  • → Latvian: fāze
  • → Lithuanian: fazė
  • → Macedonian: фаза (faza)
  • → Persian: فاز (fâz)
  • → Polish: faza
  • → Portuguese: fase
  • → Russian: фаза (faza) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: фаза / faza
  • → Slovak: fáza
  • → Slovene: faza
  • → Spanish: fase
  • → Swedish: fas
    • → Finnish: faasi
  • → Ukrainian: фаза (faza)
  • → Uzbek: faza

References

• “φάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

From φημί (phēmí) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Noun

φᾰ́σῐς • (phásis) f (genitive φᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. utterance, statement, expression

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φᾰ́σῐς; τῆς φᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φᾰ́σῐς hē phásis	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phásei	αἱ φᾰ́σεις hai pháseis
Genitive	τῆς φᾰ́σεως tês pháseōs	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phaséoin	τῶν φᾰ́σεων tôn pháseōn
Dative	τῇ φᾰ́σει têi phásei	τοῖν φᾰσέοιν toîn phaséoin	ταῖς φᾰ́σεσῐ / φᾰ́σεσῐν taîs phásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φᾰ́σῐν tḕn phásin	τὼ φᾰ́σει tṑ phásei	τᾱ̀ς φᾰ́σεις tā̀s pháseis
Vocative	φᾰ́σῐ phási	φᾰ́σει phásei	φᾰ́σεις pháseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ἀντίφασις (antíphasis)
• ἀπόφασις (apóphasis)
• ἔκφασις (ékphasis)

• κατάφασις (katáphasis)
• παράφασις (paráphasis)
• συναπόφασις (sunapóphasis)

• ὑπεραπόφασις (huperapóphasis)

References

• “φάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φάσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φάσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5334 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affirmation idem, page 16.