falx

From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.

IPA^(key): /fælks/, /fɔlks/

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• Rhymes: -ælks, -ɔlks

falx (plural falxes or falces)

1. (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
2. Any sickle-shaped part or process.
   1. (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.
   2. (anatomy, dated) A chelicera.
   3. (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
   4. (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.

• falcial
• falx cerebri
• falx cerebelli

• Flax, flax

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /falks/, [fäɫ̪ks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /falks/, [fälks]

falx f (genitive falcis); third declension

1. sickle, scythe
2. (military) a hook used to pull down walls

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• defalco
• falcastrum
• falcatus
• falcifer
• falcīcula

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “falx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 404
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “falx”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 239

• “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

Borrowed from Latin falx.

falx n (plural falxuri)

1. falx

• falx in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN