fas
See also: Appendix:Variations of "fas"
Catalan
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faːs/
- Rhymes: -aːs
Latin
FWOTD – 20 November 2012
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”) whence also Latin for, fārī.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faːs/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fas/
Noun
fās n (indeclinable)
- (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. iūs, human law), or an obligation thereunder
- hoc contra ius fasque est
- this is against law and divine law
- Corpus Reformatorum, volume 38, page 235:
- Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.
- And so if divine law is that the father, or the son, the uncle or the nephew are not to have a wife in marriage, it comes together as one and the same thing about the brother's wife: from which a similar law is conveyed by means of connecting and grasping [a pattern].
- Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.
- hoc contra ius fasque est
- (uncountable) the will of God; a predetermined destiny
Declension
Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | fās |
Genitive | — |
Dative | — |
Accusative | fās |
Ablative | — |
Vocative | — |
References
- fas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
- to trample all law under foot: ius ac fas omne delere
- fas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 203
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