English

Proper noun

Fas

1. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Fas terms

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic فَـاس ‎(fās), from Berber ⴼⴰⵙ ‎(Fas), probably taken from the word Fazaz, the old Berber name for the Middle Atlas mountains.

Proper noun

Fas

1. Morocco

Derived terms

• Faslı

English

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative form of fer

Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facer

Etymology 2

Noun

fas m pl

1. plural of fa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Verb

fas

1. Imperative singular of fasen.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːs/

  Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

fas n ‎(genitive singular fass, no plural)

1. deportment, manner

Declension

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂os ‎(“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *bʰeh₂- ‎(“to speak”) whence also Latin for, fārī.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faːs/

Noun

fās n ‎(indeclinable)

1. (uncountable) divine law, or an obligation thereunder

   hoc contra jus fasque est

   this is against law and divine law

   • Corpus Reformatorum, 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].

2. (uncountable) the will of God; a predetermined destiny

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular.

Derived terms

• fāstus
• nefās

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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, page 203

Lojban

Rafsi

fas

1. rafsi of fraso.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fas c

1. a phase, a time period
2. a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)

   i fas, ur fas

   in phase, out of phase

3. a sloping edge

Declension

Related terms

• fasa
• fasett

References

• fas in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)