phaseolus

See also: Phaseolus

English

Phaseolus coccineus vaisius, a phaseolus.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin phaseolus.

Noun

phaseolus (plural phaseoli)

1. any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas

References

• Phaseolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phaseolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phaseolus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Alternative forms

• faseolus

Etymology

Diminutive of phasēlus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈse.o.lus/, [pʰäˈs̠eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈse.o.lus/, [fäˈs̬ɛːolus]

Noun

phaseolus m (genitive phaseolī); second declension

1. A type of bean with an edible pod; in Antiquity: cowpea, New Latin: kidney bean.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phaseolus	phaseolī
Genitive	phaseolī	phaseolōrum
Dative	phaseolō	phaseolīs
Accusative	phaseolum	phaseolōs
Ablative	phaseolō	phaseolīs
Vocative	phaseole	phaseolī

Descendants

• Ligurian: faxeu
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: fasgiolu
  • Dalmatian: fasul
  • Italian: fagiolo
  • Neapolitan: fasulo
  • Sicilian: faciola, fasola
    • → Maltese: fażola
• → French: faséole
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fesol
  • Occitan: faiol, fayol
    • → French: fayot
• Friulian: fasûl
• Piedmontese: faseul
• Venetian: faxol, faxóło, faxiol
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: feijoo
    • Galician: feixón, freixón, fréxel, fréxole
    • Ladino: fijon (Balkan)
    • Portuguese: feijão
  • Spanish: frijol, frejol, fríjol, frisol
    • → Navajo: bihóól
• Southern Romance
  • Sardinian: basolu

Borrowings

• → Albanian: frashell
• → Belarusian: фасоль (fasólʹ)
• → Bulgarian: фасул (fasul)
• → Koine Greek: φασίολος (phasíolos), φασίωλος (phasíōlos), πασίολος (pasíolos), φασιούλυος (phasioúluos)
  • ⇒ Byzantine Greek: φασόλιν (phasólin)
    • Greek: φασόλι (fasóli), φασούλι (fasoúli)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: فاصولیه (fasulye, fasulya), فصولیه (fasulye, fasulya)
        • Turkish: fasulye, fasulya; fasülye
        • → Arabic: فَاصُولِيَاء (fāṣūliyāʔ)
          • → Central Kurdish: فاسولیا (fasulya)
          • → Oromo: fasooliyaa
        • → Armenian: ֆասուլյա (fasulya)
        • → Ladino: fasulya
      • → Romanian: fasole
  • → Greek: φασίολος (fasíolos) (learned)
• → Middle High German: phasōl, visōl
  • Cimbrian: fazöola
  • German: Fasole, Fisole
    • → Czech: fazole
• → Polish: fasola
• → Russian: фасоль (fasolʹ)
  • → Kildin Sami: фассэль (fassel’, “bean”)
• → Slovak: fazuľa
• → Slovene: fižol
• → Translingual: Phaseolus
• → Turkish: fasulya
• → Ukrainian: квасоля (kvasolja)

References

• “phaseolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phaseolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• phaseolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.