Translingual

Proper noun

Phaseolus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – plants that include those that produce a large variety of edible beans and bean pods..

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Faboideae - subfamily; Phaseoleae - tribe; Phaseolinae - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Phaseolus vulgaris; see Phaseolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia or Phaseolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for more

English

Noun

phaseolus ‎(plural phaseoli)

1. any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas

See also

• phaseolus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phaseolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Alternative forms

• faseolus

Etymology

Diminutive of phasēlus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈse.o.lus/, [pʰaˈse.ɔ.ɫʊs]

Noun

phaseolus m ‎(genitive phaseolī); second declension

1. A type of bean with an edible pod; kidney bean.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• phaseolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PHASEOLUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “phaseolus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.