# forfex
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin forfex.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔːɹfɛks/

### Noun

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

* “forfex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Latin
### Etymology

According to de Vaan, from Proto-Italic *forðom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to capture, shear”), and cognate with Umbrian [script needed] (furfant, “to do something (probably shearing) to sheep”), Ancient Greek πέρθω (pérthō, “to sack, to ravage”), and πορθέω (porthéō, “to pillage”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfor.feks/, [ˈfɔrfɛks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfor.feks/, [ˈfɔrfeks]

### Noun

forfex f or m (genitive forficis); third declension
* pair of shears or scissors

#### Declension

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

* 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
** Italian: forbice, forbici
* Romanian: foarfecă, foarfece
* Romagnol: formece
* Romansch: forsch, forbesch
* Sardinian: fóltighe, fórfiga, fórfighe, forbigi
* Sicilian: fòrficia, fròvici
* Venetian: forfeze (Padova), forbeze (Verona)
* → Portuguese: fórfice

### References

* “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
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “forfex, -icis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 232