phaseolus

See also: Phaseolus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin phaseolus

Noun

phaseolus (plural phaseoli)

1. any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas

See also

• phaseolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phaseolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Latin

Alternative forms

• faseolus

Etymology

Diminutive of phasēlus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈse.o.lus/, [pʰäˈs̠eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈse.o.lus/, [fäˈs̬ɛːolus]

Noun

phaseolus m (genitive phaseolī); second declension

1. A type of bean with an edible pod; in Antiquity: cowpea, New Latin: kidney bean.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phaseolus	phaseolī
Genitive	phaseolī	phaseolōrum
Dative	phaseolō	phaseolīs
Accusative	phaseolum	phaseolōs
Ablative	phaseolō	phaseolīs
Vocative	phaseole	phaseolī

Descendants

• → Albanian: frashell
• → Ancient Greek: φασίολος (phasíolos), φασίωλος (phasíōlos), πασίολος (pasíolos), φασιούλυος (phasioúluos)
• Catalan: fesol
• Dalmatian: fasul
• French: faséole
• Friulian: fasûl
• Galician: feixó, feixón
• Italian: fagiolo
• Neapolitan: fasulo
• → Polish: fasola
• Portuguese: feijão
• Sicilian: faciola, fasola
• Spanish: frijol
  • → Navajo: bihóól
• → Translingual: Phaseolus
• → Turkish: fasulya

References

• “phaseolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phaseolus 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)
• phaseolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.