φασιανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Φᾱσῐᾱνός (Phāsiānós, “Phasian”) (with the implied substantive ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”)) from Φᾶσῐς (Phâsis, “Phasis”), from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

φᾱσῐᾱνός • (phāsiānós) m (genitive φᾱσῐᾱνοῦ); second declension

  1. pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
    Synonym: τέταρος (tétaros)

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ φᾱσῐᾱνός; τοῦ φᾱσῐᾱνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ φᾱσῐᾱνός
ho phāsiānós		 τὼ φᾱσῐᾱνώ
tṑ phāsiānṓ		 οἱ φᾱσῐᾱνοί
hoi phāsiānoí
Genitive τοῦ φᾱσῐᾱνοῦ
toû phāsiānoû		 τοῖν φᾱσῐᾱνοῖν
toîn phāsiānoîn		 τῶν φᾱσῐᾱνῶν
tôn phāsiānôn
Dative τῷ φᾱσῐᾱνῷ
tôi phāsiānôi		 τοῖν φᾱσῐᾱνοῖν
toîn phāsiānoîn		 τοῖς φᾱσῐᾱνοῖς
toîs phāsiānoîs
Accusative τὸν φᾱσῐᾱνόν
tòn phāsiānón		 τὼ φᾱσῐᾱνώ
tṑ phāsiānṓ		 τοὺς φᾱσῐᾱνούς
toùs phāsiānoús
Vocative φᾱσῐᾱνέ
phāsiāné		 φᾱσῐᾱνώ
phāsiānṓ		 φᾱσῐᾱνοί
phāsiānoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: φασιανός (fasianós)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܦܣܝܢܐ (pasyānā)
  • → Hebrew: פסיון (pasyon)
  • → Latin: phāsiānus (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Armenian: փասիան (pʻasian)
  • → Translingual: Phasianus

References

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Noun

φασιανός • (fasianós) m (plural φασιανοί)

  1. pheasant

Declension
declension of φασιανός
case     \     number singular plural
nominative φασιανός • φασιανοί •
genitive φασιανού • φασιανών •
accusative φασιανό • φασιανούς •
vocative φασιανέ • φασιανοί •

Synonyms

Further reading
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