phasianus

See also: Phasianus

Latin

Alternative forms

fāsiānus
phāsiāna

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʰaː.siˈaː.nʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fa.s̬iˈaː.nus]

Noun

phāsiānus m (genitive phāsiānī); second declension

pheasant (bird)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	phāsiānus	phāsiānī
genitive	phāsiānī	phāsiānōrum
dative	phāsiānō	phāsiānīs
accusative	phāsiānum	phāsiānōs
ablative	phāsiānō	phāsiānīs
vocative	phāsiāne	phāsiānī

Synonyms

(pheasant): Phāsidis āles

Derived terms

phāsiānārius

Related terms

Phāsis

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: fagiano
  - → Hungarian: fácán
  - → Maltese: faġan
- Sicilian: fagianu
Padanian:
- Ligurian: faxàn
- Piedmontese: fasan
- Romagnol: fașân
- Venetan: fajàn, faxàn
  - → Friulian: fasan
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: faisan, faisant, faisen, feisan, feisant, fesan, feisaun, fesaun, fesaunt (Anglo-Norman)
  - Middle French: faisan
    - French: faisan
      - → Romanian: fazan
    - Norman: faîsan (Jersey)
  - → Middle English: fesaunt, fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant
    - English: pheasant
      - → Welsh: ffesant
      - → Cornish: fesont
    - Scots: pheasant
  - → Old Leonese:
    - Asturian: faisán
  - → Middle Dutch: faisant, fasaen
    - Dutch: fazant, faisant, fasant (obsolete)
      - Afrikaans: fisant
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese:
    - Galician: faisán
    - Portuguese: faisão
  - → Old Spanish: faysan
    - → Spanish: faisán
      - → Tagalog: paysan
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: faisà
- Old Occitan: faisan
  - Occitan: faisan
Borrowings:
- → Esperanto: fazano
- ⇒ Old High German: fasihuon
  - Middle High German: fasān, fasant, vasant
    - → Old Czech: bažant
      - Czech: bažant
      - → Old Polish: bażant, bażąt
        Polish: bażant, bazant, bażan (Middle Polish)
        → Kashubian: bażant
    - German: Fasan
      - → Estonian: faasan
      - → Russian: фаза́н (fazán)
      - → Serbo-Croatian: fazan
      - → Swedish: fasan
- Translingual: Phasianus

References

"phasianus", 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)