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falx
English
Etymology
From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /fælks/, /f?lks/
Noun
falx (plural falxes or falces)
- (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- Any sickle-shaped part or process.
- (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.
- (anatomy) A chelicera.
- (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
- (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.
Derived terms
- falcial
- falx cerebri
Anagrams
- Flax, flax
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *d?elk-, *d?elg- (“a cutting tool”). Cognate with Old Irish delg (“thorn, needle”), Old English dalc (“a pin, brooch, bracelet”). More at dalk.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /falks/, [fä??ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /falks/, [f?lks]
Noun
falx f (genitive falcis); third declension
- sickle, scythe
- (military) a hook used to pull down walls
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
- falcastrum
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, 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
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