different between falcate vs defalcate

English

Etymology

Latin falx (“sickle”) +? -ate (“resembling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fælke?t/

Adjective

falcate (comparative more falcate, superlative most falcate)

1. (zoology and botany) Shaped like a sickle.

Synonyms

• falciform
• falcular
• drepaniform

Related terms

• defalcate

Translations

Anagrams

• facetal

Italian

Noun

falcate f

1. plural of falcata

Adjective

falcate m

1. plural of falcato

Latin

Adjective

falc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of falc?tus

English

Etymology

1530s, in sense “to lop off”, from Medieval Latin d?falc?tus, perfect passive participle of d?falc? (“cut or lop off”), from Latin d? (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”), from which also English falcate (“sickle-shaped”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?d?f??ke?t]

Verb

defalcate (third-person singular simple present defalcates, present participle defalcating, simple past and past participle defalcated)

1. (transitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
2. (transitive) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of (money, rents, income, etc.).
   • 1769, Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late State of the Nation

     To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates].

Derived terms

• defalcation

Related terms

• falcate

Translations

See also

• lop

References

Italian

Verb

defalcate

1. second-person plural present indicative of defalcare
2. second-person plural imperative of defalcare