falxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /fælks/, /fɔlks/
• 韻: -ælks, -ɔlks

名詞

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.

派生語

アナグラム

• Flax, flax

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfaɫks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfalks]

名詞

falx f (genitive falcis); third declension

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

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生語

派生した語

参照

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