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Latin
Etymology
From fala (“siege tower”).
Noun
falarica f (genitive falaricae); first declension
- A kind of javelin, thrown by a catapult
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “falarica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “falarica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- falarica 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)
- falarica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “falarica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “falarica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin