The corpus record — Latin

Falco

Falco · m

a falcon

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Where it lives

Helvius Pertinax 7 · 26.92/10k

What it meant

falco — Lewis & Short

falco, ōnis, m.v. flecto, = fa/lkwn,

I a falcon.

I Lit., Serv. Verg. A. 10, 146; Isid. Orig. 12, 7, 57 al.—

II Transf.: falcones dicuntur, quorum digiti pollices in pedibus intro sunt curvati, Paul. ex Fest. p. 88, 8 Müll.; cf. falcula, II. A.

In the wild

Falco Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 10
Falconem Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 10
Falconi Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 10
Falco Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 10
Falconis Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 10
Falcone Historia Augusta, Helvius Pertinax 15

6 of 7 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.