The corpus record — Latin

falcatus

falcatus · adj

armed with scythes

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Alexander Severus 2 · 1.87/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 2 · 1.22/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 7 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

falcātus — Lewis & Short

falcātus, a, um, adj.id.,

I armed with scythes.

I Lit.: currus, quadrigae, etc., Liv. 37, 41, 5; Curt. 4, 9, 4; Auct. B. Alex. 75; Val. Fl. 6, 105; 387.—

II Transf., sickle-shaped, hooked, curved, falcated: en sis, a falchion, Ov. M. 1, 717; 4, 727: cauda, id. ib. 3, 681; Plin. 10, 21, 24, § 47: sinus arcus, Ov. M. 11, 229.

In the wild

falcatae Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.40.12
falcatus Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.229
falcatis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.5.3
falcati Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.12.6
falcatus Ovid, Epistulae 2.131
falcatae Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.9.5

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.