Etymology

falx

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Today it means: A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle. Full definition →

Latin falx
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfalx“sickle”
  2. English todayfalx

From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.

Words from the same roots

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