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Latin
Etymology
From Falisci, the ethnonym.
Pronunciation
Adjective
faliscus (feminine falisca, neuter faliscum); first/second-declension adjective
- Faliscan
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
faliscus m (genitive faliscī); second declension
- a kind of Faliscan sausage
c. 45 CE – 96 CE,
Statius,
Silvae 4.9.20–36:
- Sed Bruti senis oscitationes de capsa miseri libellionis emptum plus minus asse Gaiano, donas. non lucanica, non graves falisci, non sal oxyporumve caseusve?
- But no, you send me Brutus’ boring stuff, bought for about a Caligulan as from a poor bookseller’s bag. Wasn’t there Lucanian boloney, no heavy Faliscian sujuks, no salt, carminative, or cheese?
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- faliscus 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)
- “faliscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers