Latin

Alternative forms

• phasellus
• fasēlus

Noun

phasēlus m ‎(genitive phasēlī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• phaseolus

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “phaselus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.