Fromφῠ́ω(phŭ́ō,“grow”) +-σῐς(-sĭs). CompareProto-Slavic*bytь(“essence; culture”) andSanskritभूति(bhūti,“existence, being; form; might, power, prosperity; fortune”).[1]
- IPA(key): /pʰý.sis/ →/ˈɸy.sis/ →/ˈfi.sis/
φῠ́σῐς• (phŭ́sĭs) f (genitiveφῠ́σεως);third declension
- origin,birth
- nature,quality,property
- later, the nature of one's personality:temper,disposition
- form,shape
- that which isnatural:nature
- type,kind
- Nature, as an entity, especially of productive power
- creature
- “φύσις”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φύσις”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φύσις”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φύσις inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001),A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- φύσις inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
- “φύσις”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5449 inStrong, James (1979),Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- appearance idem, page 35.
- character idem, page 125.
- constitution idem, page 164.
- disposition idem, page 237.
- form idem, page 338.
- formation idem, page 339.
- genius idem, page 357.
- inclination idem, page 428.
- instinct idem, page 446.
- intuition idem, page 456.
- kind idem, page 469.
- nature idem, page 552.
- shape idem, page 762.
- sort idem, page 795.
- temper idem, page 859.
- temperament idem, page 860.
