φύσις

From φῠ́ω (phúō, “grow”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

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φῠ́σῐς • (phúsis) f (genitive φῠ́σεως); third declension

1. origin, birth
2. nature, quality, property
3. later, the nature of one's personality: temper, disposition
4. form, shape
5. that which is natural: nature
6. type, kind
7. Nature, as an entity, especially of productive power
8. creature

• Greek: φύση (fýsi)
• → Coptic: ⲫⲩⲥⲓⲥ (phusis)
• → English: physis
• → Portuguese: physis

• φύσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φύσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φύσις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φύσις in Bailly, 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 in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φύσις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5449 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, 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.