forfex
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
forfex (plural forfices)
- (obsolete) A pair of shears.
- 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:
- The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring Forfex wide,
T'inclose the Lock; now joins it, to divide.
- 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of Antiquities:
- the Classical forfices
References edit
- “forfex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *forðom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- and so, cognate with Ancient Greek πέρθω (pérthō, “to sack, to ravage”) and πορθέω (porthéō, “to pillage”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.feks/, [ˈfɔrfɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.feks/, [ˈfɔrfeks]
Noun edit
forfex f or m (genitive forficis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | forfex | forficēs |
| Genitive | forficis | forficum |
| Dative | forficī | forficibus |
| Accusative | forficem | forficēs |
| Ablative | forfice | forficibus |
| Vocative | forfex | forficēs |
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: foarficã, foarticã, fortãche
- Emilian: forbza
- French: forces
- Friulian: fuarpis, fuarfis, forfes
- → Venetian: forfe
- Lombard: fores (Milano), forves (Bregaglia), fraus (Mesolcina)
- Neapolitan: forfece, fuerceue (Bari) frovece (Abruzzo, medieval)
- Occitan: forfe, forfias (Vivaro-Alpine)
- Old Italian: forfice
- Romanian: foarfecă, foarfece
- Romagnol: formece
- Romansch: forsch, forbesch
- Sardinian: fóltighe, fórfiga, fórfighe, forbigi
- Sicilian: fòrficia, fròvici
- Venetian: forfeze (Padova), forbeze (Verona)
- → Portuguese: fórfice
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- “forfex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- forfex 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)
- forfex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “forfex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “forfex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- forfex in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “fŏrfex”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 257