falcarius
Latin
Etymology
From falx (“scythe”) + -ārius (agent noun suffix).
Noun
falcārius m (genitive falcāriī or falcārī); second declension
- 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.)
- 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.
- Dīcō tē priōre nocte vēnisse inter falcāriōs — nōn agam obscūrē — in M. Laecae domum; convēnisse eōdem complūrēs eiusdem āmentiae scelerisque sociōs.
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).
Related terms
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.