fisik
Keywords: science, physics
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'fi.zik |
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Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
Class: | pali |
Forms: | fisik, fisikys |
Glosses: | physics, physical, scientific |
Description:
The term 'fisik' is a loanword from international scientific vocabulary, most likely from English, which is attested in various forms since at least the late early period and which was codified in its present form in the early modern period to build the technical vocabulary of common. It refers to the science of physics as well as the sense of an object being real or physical, which was calqued from English.
Noun:
As a noun, 'fisik' means the science of physics.
Modifier:
The modifier form 'fisikys' means 'pertaining to the science of physics', and also has the colloquial sense of 'real' in the way we mean when we say something is a 'physical object' in English. It can also have the sense of 'scientific' in colloquial Common.
Verb:
'Fisik' is little used as a verb, but it can be used as a pali verb to say that something is physical in the sense of real, or colloquially to communicate the idea that the absolutive subject is real science, scientific.