faliscus

Latin

From Falisci, the ethnonym.

faliscus (feminine falisca, neuter faliscum); first/second declension

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	faliscus	falisca	faliscum	faliscī	faliscae	falisca
Genitive	faliscī	faliscae	faliscī	faliscōrum	faliscārum	faliscōrum
Dative	faliscō	faliscae	faliscō	faliscīs	faliscīs	faliscīs
Accusative	faliscum	faliscam	faliscum	faliscōs	faliscās	falisca
Ablative	faliscō	faliscā	faliscō	faliscīs	faliscīs	faliscīs
Vocative	falisce	falisca	faliscum	faliscī	faliscae	falisca

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?

Second declension.

faliscus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
faliscus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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