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.^[1]

Pronunciation

(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 • (phắsēlos) m (genitive φᾰσήλου); second declension

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 phắsēlos	τὼ φᾰσήλω tṑ phăsḗlō	οἱ φᾰ́σηλοι hoi phắsēloi
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰσήλου toû phăsḗlou	τοῖν φᾰσήλοιν toîn phăsḗloin	τῶν φᾰσήλων tôn phăsḗlōn
Dative	τῷ φᾰσήλῳ tôi phăsḗlōi	τοῖν φᾰσήλοιν toîn phăsḗloin	τοῖς φᾰσήλοις toîs phăsḗlois
Accusative	τὸν φᾰ́σηλον tòn phắsēlon	τὼ φᾰσήλω tṑ phăsḗlō	τοὺς φᾰσήλους toùs phăsḗlous
Vocative	φᾰ́σηλε phắsēle	φᾰσήλω phăsḗlō	φᾰ́σηλοι phắsēloi
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

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φάσηλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1556

“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

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φάσηλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1556

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