falcã

See also: falca and falcă

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• falche

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin falx, falcem (“sickle”), or through a Vulgar Latin form *falca; compare Romanian falcă; change in meaning, due to the shape of the mandible, also in Albanian felqinë (“jaw”). Compare also the semantic development of Sardinian cavanu (“jaw”) and cavana (“sickle”). Latin maxilla (“jaw”) gave Aromanian mãseauã (“molar”).

Noun

falcã f (plural fãltsi)

1. jaw

Synonyms

• ciolj

Derived terms

• fãlcos
• fãlcari