phrasis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

phrăsis, is, f., = φράσις, in rhetoric,

diction (pure Lat. elocutio; post-Aug.): (in Albucio) non lexis magna, sed phrasis, Sen. Contr. 3 prooem.; acc. phrasin, Quint. 10, 1, 87 ( id. 8, 1, 1, written as Greek).