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alternative spelling of fast
- 2005, Norman Grindley, “AUCTION - Impounded vehicles to go on sale”, in The Jamaica Star‎ (in English):
  “Mine in deh bout eight weeks now an' mi nuh have no money fi clear so mi mek up mi min' not fi clear it cause a $40,000 mi pay fi get it back di other day an' dem tek it now an' judge seh mi fi pay $30,000. Mi caan fin' dat amount of money so fas. […] ”
  Mine has been there for about eight weeks and I don't have any money to pay the fine. So I decided not to pay it because I paid $40,000 to get it back the other day and they've taken it again. The judge said I have to pay $30,000. I can't find that kind of money so fast. […]
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Latin

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Alternative forms

phās (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Category:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FAS Category:Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)#FAS

From Proto-Italic Category:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#FAS Category:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#FAS *fās, possibly from Proto-Indo-European Category:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#FAS Category:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FAS *bʰeh₂os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), whence also for, fārī. However, Beekes thinks there is "no convincing etymology" for Latin fās and Ancient Greek ὁσία (hosía).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːs]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#FAS Category:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#FAS

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfas]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#FAS Category:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#FAS

Noun

fās n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)Category:Latin lemmas#FAS Category:Latin nouns#FAS Category:Latin indeclinable nouns#FAS Category:Latin neuter indeclinable nouns#FAS Category:Latin nouns with no genitive singular#FAS Category:Latin entries with incorrect language header#FAS Category:Latin neuter nouns#FAS Category:Pages with entries#FAS Category:Pages with 19 entries#FAS

(uncountable Category:Latin uncountable nouns#FAS) 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
Category:Latin terms with usage examples#FAS
- (Can we date this quote?), 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].
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(uncountable Category:Latin uncountable nouns#FAS) divine will or right, the will of God or heaven; a predetermined destiny
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.205–206:
  “Latium [...]: illīc fās rēgna resurgere Troiae.”
  “Latium [...]: there it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.”
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(uncountable Category:Latin uncountable nouns#FAS) right, proper, allowable, lawful, fit, permitted, permissible, possible
- 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.7–8:
  fās mihi praecipuē voltūs vīdisse deōrum,
  vel quia sum vātēs, vel quia sacra canō.
  [It is] permissible, for me especially, to have seen the faces of the gods, either because I am a poet, or because I sing sacred [themes].
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Declension

Indeclinable noun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only.

	singular
nominative	fās
genitive	—
dative	—
accusative	fās
ablative	—
vocative	—

Derived terms

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
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“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, →ISBN, page 203