phasis
See also: Phasis
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin phasis, or its source, Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “appearance”).
Noun edit
phasis (plural phases)
- (obsolete) A phase (of the moon, a planet etc.). [17th–19th c.]
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 119:
- [A]s the same face of the moon always is turned to the earth, the lunar tides must be permanent, and if the solid parts of the moon be spherical, must always cover the phasis next to us.
- (obsolete) Any phase or aspect of something. [17th–19th c.]
- 1697, Marcus Manilius, translated by Thomas Creech, Astronomica:
- He o'er the seas shall love or fame pursue, / And other Months, another Phasis view […] .
- 1882, John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive, 8th edition:
- In popular language Feeling is not always synonymous with State of Consciousness; being often taken more peculiarly for those states which are conceived as belonging to the sensitive, or to the emotional, phasis of our nature […] .
- (now rare) The first appearance of the new moon. [from 19th c.]
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “appearance”).
Noun edit
phasis f (genitive phasis); third declension
- Phase
- Appearance
Inflection edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | phasis | phasēs |
Genitive | phasis | phasium |
Dative | phasī | phasibus |
Accusative | phasem | phasēs phasīs |
Ablative | phase phasī |
phasibus |
Vocative | phasis | phasēs |