falx
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
(deprecated use of |lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /fælks/, /fɔlks/
Noun
falx (plural falxes or falces)
- (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- (anatomy) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰelk-, *dʰelg- (“a cutting tool”). Cognate with Old Irish delg (“thorn, needle”), Old English dalc (“a pin, brooch, bracelet”). More at dalk.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /falks/, [fäɫ̪ks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /falks/, [fälks]
Noun
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Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Albanian: felqinë
- Aragonese: falz
- Aromanian: falcã
- Asturian: foz, fouz, foiz
- Catalan: falç
- Emilian: fèlz
- English: falx
- Fala: foici
- French: faux, faucille
References
- “falx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “falx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- falx in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- falx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “falx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “falx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
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