The corpus record — Latin

falciger

falciger · adj

sickle-bearing

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Where it lives

Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

falcĭger — Lewis & Short

falcĭger, ĕra, ĕrum, adj.falx+gero,

I sickle-bearing: Caeligena, Aus. Ecl. de Fer. Rom. 36.

In the wild

falcigero Silius Italicus, Punica 17.417

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. falciger (scan p. 238; entry #3687).

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