fas
Translingual
Symbol
fas
English
Etymology 1
Noun
fas
Etymology 2
From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.
Noun
fas (plural fases)
- (Scotland, obsolete) A border or fringe.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A thing represented as being worthless.
- Not worth a fas
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
fas
Verb
fas
Galician
Etymology 1
Verb
fas
Etymology 2
Noun
fas m pl
German
Pronunciation
Verb
fas
Hlai
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Hlai *fʰaːʔ (“sky”), from Pre-Hlai *faːʔ (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *vaːꟲ (“sky; weather”) (whence Thai ฟ้า (fáa)).
Noun
fas
Etymology 2
From Proto-Hlai *C-waːʔ (“sour”), from Pre-Hlai *C-waːʔ (Norquest, 2015).
Adjective
fas
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
fas n (genitive singular fass, no plural)
Declension
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Noun
fas (first-person possessive fasku, second-person possessive fasmu, third-person possessive fasnya)
- Alternative spelling of vas (“vase”)
Jamaican Creole
Adjective
fas
- Alternative spelling of fast.
- 2005, Norman Grindley, “AUCTION - Impounded vehicles to go on sale”, in The Jamaica Star[1] (in English):
- “Mine in deh bout eight weeks now an' mi nuh have no money fi clear so mi mek up mi min' not fi clear it cause a $40,000 mi pay fi get it back di other day an' dem tek it now an' judge seh mi fi pay $30,000. Mi caan fin' dat amount of money so fas. […] ”
- Mine has been there for about eight weeks and I don't have any money to pay the fine. So I decided not to pay it because I paid $40,000 to get it back the other day and they've taken it again. The judge said I have to pay $30,000. I can't find that kind of money so fast. […]
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fās, possibly Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), whence also for, fārī. But Beekes thinks there is "no convincing etymology" for Latin fas and Greek ὁσία.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /faːs/, [fäːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fas/, [fäs]
Noun
fās n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)
- (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. iūs, human law), or an obligation thereunder
- hoc contra ius fasque est
- this is against law and divine law
- (Can we date this quote?), Corpus Reformatorum[2], volume 38, page 235:
- Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.
- And so if divine law is that the father, or the son, the uncle or the nephew are not to have a wife in marriage, it comes together as one and the same thing about the brother's wife: from which a similar law is conveyed by means of connecting and grasping [a pattern].
- (uncountable) divine will or right, the will of God or heaven; a predetermined destiny
- (uncountable) right, proper, allowable, lawful, fit, permitted, permissible, possible
Declension
Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | fās |
Genitive | — |
Dative | — |
Accusative | fās |
Ablative | — |
Vocative | — |
Derived terms
References
- “fas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
- to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
- “fas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203
Middle English
Noun
fas
- Alternative form of fass
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *vëstē.
Pronunciation
Adverb
fas
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fas
- imperative of fase
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
fas n
- Alternative form of fæs
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
fas c
- a phase, a time period
- a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)
- i fas, ur fas
- in phase, out of phase
- i fas, ur fas
- a sloping edge
Declension
Declension of fas | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fas | fasen | faser | faserna |
Genitive | fas | fasens | fasers | fasernas |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Finnish: faasi
References
Welsh
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
fas f (plural fasys, not mutable)
Etymology 2
Noun
fas
- Soft mutation of bas.
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bas | fas | mas | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Etymology 3
Adverb
fas
- Soft mutation of mas.
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
mas | fas | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “fas”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Wolof
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
fas (definite form fas wi)
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