falcarius

Latin

Etymology

From falx (scythe) +‎ -ārius (agent noun suffix).

Noun

falcārius m (genitive falcāriī or falcārī); second declension

  1. sickle- or scythe-maker
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.8:
      Dīcō tē priōre nocte vēnisse inter falcāriōs — nōn agam obscūrē — in M. Laecae domum; convēnisse eōdem complūrēs eiusdem āmentiae scelerisque sociōs.
      I say that you came last night among the scythe-makers — I will not speak in veiled terms — into the house of Marcus Laeca; and that several accomplices of the same madness and crime gathered in that same place.
      (That is, the scythe-makers’ quarter, neighborhood, or street in ancient Rome: identifying the location lends credibility to Cicero’s charge against Cataline.)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative falcārius falcāriī
genitive falcāriī
falcārī1
falcāriōrum
dative falcāriō falcāriīs
accusative falcārium falcāriōs
ablative falcāriō falcāriīs
vocative falcārie falcāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • falcarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • falcarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "falcarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • falcarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.