Etymology

falcate

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Today it means: Shaped like a sickle. Full definition →

Latin falcātus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfalcātus“curved, sickle-shaped”
  2. English todayfalcate

Borrowed from Latin falcātus (“curved, sickle-shaped”), from falx (“sickle”, oblique stem in falc-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words from the same roots

Latinfalcātus all →

falcatafalcated

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