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Webster 1913 Edition
Phaseolus
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Pha-se′o-lus
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Noun.
[L.]
(Bot.)
A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See
Bean
. Definition 2024
Phaseolus
Phaseolus
See also: phaseolus
Translingual
Proper noun
Phaseolus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – plants that include those that produce a large variety of edible beans and bean pods..
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Faboideae - subfamily; Phaseoleae - tribe; Phaseolinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Phaseolus vulgaris; see Phaseolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia or Phaseolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for more
phaseolus
phaseolus
See also: Phaseolus
English
Noun
phaseolus (plural phaseoli)
See also
- phaseolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- phaseolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Latin
Alternative forms
- faseolus
Etymology
Diminutive of phasēlus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pʰaˈse.o.lus/, [pʰaˈse.ɔ.ɫʊs]
Noun
phaseolus m (genitive phaseolī); second declension
- A type of bean with an edible pod; kidney bean.
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | phaseolus | phaseolī |
genitive | phaseolī | phaseolōrum |
dative | phaseolō | phaseolīs |
accusative | phaseolum | phaseolōs |
ablative | phaseolō | phaseolīs |
vocative | phaseole | phaseolī |
Descendants
- Albanian: frashell
- Ancient Greek: φασίολος (phasíolos), φασίωλος (phasíōlos), πασίολος (pasíolos), φασιούλυος (phasioúluos)
- Catalan: fesol
- Dalmatian: fasul
- Friulian: fasûl
- Galician: feixó, feixón
- Italian: fagiolo
- Portuguese: feijão
- Sicilian: faciola, fasola
- Spanish: frijol
- Translingual: Phaseolus
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “phaseolus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.