Phasis

From Ancient Greek Φᾶσις (Phâsis).

Phasis

1. The Rioni river, as it is called in classical sources.
   • 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 320:

     Poti.* A fortified harbour at the mouth of the river Rion, the ancient Phasis, on the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea. The town is composed of a collection of wooden houses surrounded by a forest.

• Cyrus

• aspish, pissah, spahis

From Ancient Greek Φᾶσις (Phâsis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰaː.sis/, [ˈpʰäːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.sis/, [ˈfäːs̬is]

Phāsis m sg (genitive Phāsis or Phāsidis or Phāsidos); third declension

1. An important river of Colchis, now called Rioni

3=http://www.zeno.org/Georges-1913/A/Phasis : "Phāsis, idis und idos, Akk. im und in (Φασις) ... Genet. Phasidos, Prop. 1, 20, 18. Ov. her. 6, 108; met. 7, 6: Akk. Phasim, Verg. georg. 4, 367. Colum. 8, 8, 10; Phasin, Prop. 3, 22, 11. Stat. Theb. 5, 458: Vok. Phasi, Ov. ex Pont. 4, 10, 52."

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Phāsiānus
• Phāsiacus

• Phasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Phasis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly