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

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

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

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Descendants

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
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “falx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 404
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “falx”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 239

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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