phrasis

From Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰra.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfraː.s̬is]

phrasis f (genitive phrasis or phraseōs or phrasios); third declension

1. diction
2. expression, sense, meaning

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. Note: the accusative forms phrasim and phrasem and the genitive form phraseos are postclassical.

• English: phrase
• French: phrase
• Italian: frase
• Portuguese: frase
• Romanian: frază
• Spanish: frase

• “phrasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phrasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• https://logeion.uchicago.edu/phrasis