falx

English

Etymology

From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /fælks/, /fɔlks/

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  • Rhymes: -ælks, -ɔlks

Noun

falx (plural falxes or falces)

  1. (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
  2. Any sickle-shaped part or process.
    1. (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.
    2. (anatomy, dated) A chelicera.
    3. (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
    4. (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.

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Latin

Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelg- (“to sting; needle”),[1][2] whence also Proto-Celtic *delgos (“needle; pin”), Proto-Germanic *dalkaz (“pin, brooch; dagger”), Lithuanian dilgùs (“stinging, burning”), dilgėlė̃, dìlgė f (“nettle”), dìlgti, dìlgstu (“to be stung by nettles”), dal̃gis (“scythe”). Both the -a- and the -c- are unexpected, which might suggest a borrowing from a neighbouring Indo-European language of Italy.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

falx f (genitive falcis); third declension

  1. sickle, scythe
  2. (military) a hook used to pull down walls

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative falx falcēs
Genitive falcis falcium
Dative falcī falcibus
Accusative falcem falcēs
falcīs
Ablative falce falcibus
Vocative falx falcēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “dhelg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 247
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “falx”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200

Further reading
  • “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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin falx.

Noun

falx n (plural falxuri)

  1. falx

Declension
Declension of falx
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) falx falxul (niște) falxuri falxurile
genitive/dative (unui) falx falxului (unor) falxuri falxurilor
vocative falxule falxurilor

References
  • falx in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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