phi

English Online Dictionary. What means phi‎? What does phi mean?

Translingual

Symbol

phi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Philippine languages.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɪ/
• • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophone: fie
• IPA^(key): /fiː/
• • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophone: fee

Noun

phi (plural phis)

1. Φ, 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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

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

References

Anagrams

• HIP, PIH, hip

Dutch

Alternative forms

• fi

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi/

Noun

phi m or f (plural phi's, diminutive phi'tje n)

1. phi (letter of the Greek alphabet)

Further reading

• phi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi/

Noun

phi m (plural phi)

1. phi (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “phi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: phì

Noun

phi m (invariable)

1. phi (Greek letter)

Polish

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpxi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: phi

Interjection

phi

1. huh, pooh used to express dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φεῖ (pheî).

Alternative forms

• fi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: phi

Noun

phi n (indeclinable)

1. phi (Greek letter Φ, φ)

Further reading

• phi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• phi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

phi m (invariable)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of fi.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [fi˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [fɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [fɪj˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 飛 (“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 非 (“not”).

Prefix

phi (非)

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

1. phi (Φ)

Etymology 6

Sino-Vietnamese word from 妃.

Noun

phi

1. concubines, mistresses, ladies of a monarch.

2. wives, consorts of a junior monarch such as a prince.

Synonyms

• (concubine): vợ lẽ, vợ bé, phi tần
• (consort): vợ

Derived terms

Etymology 7

Sino-Vietnamese reading of various Chinese characters.

Romanization

phi

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 妃
2. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 痱
3. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 不
4. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 霏
5. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 髬
6. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 腓
7. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 斐
8. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 丕
9. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蜚
10. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 披
11. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 騑
12. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 鯡
13. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 扉
14. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 緋
15. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 飛
16. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 非
17. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 紕
18. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 菲
19. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 呸

Derived terms

• Bột Phi
• Hàn Phi
• hoàng phi
• hoành phi
• Phi Lai Giang
• Phi Liêm

See also

• phi-la-tốp
• phi lao, phi-lao
• phi lê, phi-lê (“fillet”)
• phi-nan (“finale”)
• phi-năng (“finance”)
• phương phi

References

• "phi" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
• Lê Sơn 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”