Falena

See also: falena

Italian

Etymology

From Latin phalaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina, “moth; whale”). The semantic shift from "whale" to "moth" occurred in Hellenistic Greek, likely due to an analogy between the fluttering movement of a moth's wings and the fins or spout of a whale. Doublet of balena (“whale”).

Proper noun

Falena m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Further reading

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