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Yes. The word falx is a Scrabble US word. The word falx is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word falx is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

FALX,FLAX,

3-letter words (3 found)

ALF,FAX,LAX,

2-letter words (4 found)

AL,AX,FA,LA,

You can make 9 words from falx according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of falx

falx aflx flax lfax alfx lafx faxl afxl fxal xfal axfl xafl flxa lfxa fxla xfla lxfa xlfa alxf laxf axlf xalf lxaf xlaf

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Definitions and meaning of falx

falx

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /fælks/, /fɔlks/

  • Rhymes: -ælks, -ɔlks

Noun

falx (plural falxes or falces)

  1. (historical) A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
  2. Any sickle-shaped part or process.
    1. (anatomy) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
    2. (anatomy, dated) A chelicera.
    3. (anatomy) A snake's poison fang.
    4. (anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.

Derived terms

  • falcial
  • falx cerebri
  • falx cerebelli

Anagrams

  • Flax, flax

Latin

Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelg- (“to sting; needle”), whence also Proto-Celtic *delgos (“needle; pin”), Proto-Germanic *dalkaz (“pin, brooch; dagger”), Lithuanian dilgùs (“stinging, burning”), dilgėlė̃, dìlgė f (“nettle”), dìlgti, dìlgstu (“to be stung by nettles”), dal̃gis (“scythe”). Both the -a- and the -c- are unexpected, which might suggest a borrowing from a neighbouring Indo-European language of Italy.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /falks/, [fäɫ̪ks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /falks/, [fälks]

Noun

falx f (genitive falcis); third declension

  1. sickle, scythe
  2. (military) a hook used to pull down walls

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

  • defalco
  • falcastrum
  • falcatus
  • falcifer
  • falcīcula

Descendants

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “falx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 404
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “falx”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 239

Further reading

  • “falx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “falx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • falx in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • falx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “falx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “falx”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin falx.

Noun

falx n (plural falxuri)

  1. falx

Declension

References

  • falx in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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