Pharsalus

Via Latin Pharsalus, from Ancient Greek Φάρσαλος (Phársalos)

Pharsalus

1. An ancient city in Phthiotis in the modern Fthiotida prefecture, Greece

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φάρσαλος (Phársalos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰarˈsaː.lus/, [pʰärˈs̠äːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /farˈsa.lus/, [färˈsäːlus]

Pharsālus m sg (genitive Pharsālī); second declension

1. a city of Thessaly where Caesar defeated Pompey

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Pharsālia
• Pharsālicus
• Pharsālius

• “Pharsalos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pharsalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Pharsalus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly