# falx
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

IPA: /fælks/, /fɔlks/
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* Rhymes: -ælks, -ɔlks

### 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, dated) A chelicera.
** (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
** (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.

#### Derived terms

* falcate
* falcial
* falcoid
* falx cerebelli
* falx cerebri

### Anagrams

* Flax, flax

## Latin
### Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelg- (“to sting; needle”), 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.

### Pronunciation

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

### 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

* defalco
* falcastrum
* falcatus
* falcifer
* falcīcula

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: falz
* Aromanian: falcã, falche
* Old Leonese: foce, fouce
** Asturian: foz, fouz, foiz, ḥoce, ḥoz
** Leonese: fouz
** Mirandese: fouce
* Catalan: falç
* Emilian: fèlz
* → English: falx
* Fala: foici
* Franco-Provençal: folx
* Friulian: fals
* Italian: falce
* Ladin: fauc
* Lombard: falc, folcc
* Neapolitan: falcè
* Old French: fauz
** French: faux
*** Karipúna Creole French: fos
** Picard: feuque
** Walloon: foque (obsolete)
* Old Occitan: fals
** Occitan: falç, fauç, haus, fâ
* Old Galician-Portuguese: fouce
** Fala: foici, fueici
** Galician: fouce
** Portuguese: foice, fouce (dated or dialectal)
* Romanian: falcă, falce
* Romansch: faulsch
* Sardinian: falche, falle, farche, farci, frache, fraci
* Sicilian: fauci
* Spanish: hoz
* Venetan: falẑ
* >? Vulgar Latin: falcina
** → Albanian: felqinë

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “dhelg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 247
* 1 2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “falx”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 200
* 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

### Further reading

* “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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin falx.

### Noun

falx n (plural falxuri)
* falx

#### Declension
### References

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