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English

Etymology

From Late Latin phi, from Ancient Greek ??? (pheî).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/
• • Rhymes: -a?
  • Homophone: fie
• IPA^(key): /fi?/
• • Rhymes: -i?
  • Homophone: fee

Noun

phi (plural phis)

1. ?, the 21st letter of the Euclidean and modern Greek alphabet, usually romanized as "ph".
2. (mathematics) The golden ratio.
3. A visual illusion whereby a sequential pattern of lights produces a false sense of motion.
   • 1963, Psychology Through Experiment (George Humphrey, Jaroslav Antonio Deutsch), page 90:

     […] tolerance (Frenkel-Brunswik 1949) for it showed that those persons with the strongest defences against internal conflict, i.e. obsessionals and conversion hysterics, were those least able to perceive the reality-conflicting phenomenon of phi.

Translations

See also

• (Greek letter): Previous: upsilon, Next: chi

References

Anagrams

• HIP, PIH, hip

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi/

Noun

phi m (plural phi)

1. phi (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “phi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

phi m (invariable)

1. phi (Greek letter)

Portuguese

Noun

phi m (plural phi)

1. Obsolete spelling of fi (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [fi??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [f?j??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [f?j??]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“to fly; to gallop”).

Verb

phi

1. (of a horse) to gallop

2. to flee; to travel very quickly

3. to lance (to throw in the manner of a lance)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“not”).

Prefix

phi (?)

1. non-, in-

Derived terms

Conjunction

phi

1. if it isn't

Etymology 3

Verb

phi

1. to stir-fry (an onion, scallion, or clove of garlic) before preparing a dish

Etymology 4

Noun

(classifier con) phi

1. Various species of saltwater clam of the genus Sanguinolaria, such as Sanguinolaria diphos and Sanguinolaria planculata.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Latin phi.

Noun

phi

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Etymology 6

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

(classifier bà) phi

1. concubines, mistresses, ladies of a monarch.

Synonyms

• (concubine): v? l?, v? bé, phi t?n

Derived terms

Etymology 7

Romanization

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Derived terms

• B?t Phi
• Hàn Phi
• hoàng phi
• hoành phi
• Phi Lai Giang
• Phi Liêm

See also

• phi-la-t?p
• phi lao, phi-lao
• phi lê, phi-lê (“fillet”)
• phi-nan (“finale”)
• phi-n?ng (“finance”)
• ph??ng phi

References

• "phi" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
• Lê S?n Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)

Zulu

Etymology

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Adjective

-phi^?

1. which

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “phi”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “phi”

English

Etymology

Clipping of physiognomy, late 17th c.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

phiz (plural phizzes or phizes)

1. (chiefly Britain, colloquial) The face.
   • 2017: "Zizou is a rock. Zizou is an island" by Michael Butler, The Guardian

     Sulley Muntari gets fresh and funky on social media disgrace Twitter after claims were made that he introduced his open palm to the phiz of a referee...

Synonyms

• fizzog, phizog