phaselus

• fasēlus, phasellus

Either from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean”) or from the substrate language which was the original source.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈseː.lus/, [pʰäˈs̠eːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈse.lus/, [fäˈs̬ɛːlus]

phasēlus m (genitive phasēlī); second declension

1. a kind of bean with an edible pod, French bean, kidney bean, phasel
2. (transferred sense) a light vessel (in the shape of a kidney bean) made of wicker-work or papyrus, sometimes also of burned and painted clay

Second-declension noun.

• phaseolus

• → Italian: faselo (learned)

• “phaselus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phaselus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phaselus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.