falx
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
falx (plural falxes or falces)
- (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- Any sickle-shaped part or process.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /falks/, [fäɫ̪ks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /falks/, [fälks]
Noun edit
falx f (genitive falcis); third declension
Declension edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- Aragonese: falz
- Aromanian: falcã, falche
- Asturian: foz, fouz, foiz
- Catalan: falç
- Emilian: fèlz
- → English: falx
- Fala: foici
- Friulian: fals
- Italian: falce
- Ladin: fauc
- Lombard: falc, folcc
- Mirandese: fouce
- Neapolitan: falcè
- Old French: fauz
- Old Occitan: fals
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fouce
- Romanian: falcă, falce
- Romansch: faulsch
- Sardinian: falche, falle, farche, farci, frache, fraci
- Sicilian: fauci
- Spanish: hoz
- Venetian: falẑ
- >? Vulgar Latin: falcina
- → Albanian: felqinë
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “dhelg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 247
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “falx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 404
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “falx”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 239
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
falx n (plural falxuri)
Declension edit
Declension of falx
singular | plural | |||
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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 |