The corpus record — Latin

falx

falx · f

a sickle

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

Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 6.74/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Georgicon 7 · 4.95/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 30 · 3.81/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Elegiae 4 · 3.24/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k

Densest 12 of 56 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

falx — Lewis & Short

falx, falcis, f.perh. akin to flecto,

I a sickle, reaping-hook, a pruning-hook, scythe.

I Prop., Cato, R. R. 10, 3; 11, 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 5; Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; id. Mil. 33, 91; Verg. G. 1, 348: Ov. F. 4, 914; Hor. C. 1, 31, 9 et saep.—

II Transf., a military implement shaped like a sickle, used in sieges to pull down walls or the enemies stationed on the walls; a hook: falces praeacutae insertae affixaeque longuriis: non absimili formā muralium falcium, Caes. B. G. 3, 14, 5; 5, 42 fin.; 7, 22; Sisenn. ap. Non. 556, 22; Curt. 4, 3, 8; Tac. H. 3, 27; Stat. Ach. 2, 419.—Of the scythes with which chariots were armed, Curt. 4, 15, 2.

In the wild

falce Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.9.1
Falce Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.M1
falcibus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.20.3
falcem Vergil, Eclogues 4
falce Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.322
falce Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.pr.15

6 of 165 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. falx (scan p. 238; entry #3686).

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