Faliscan definition

fə-lĭskən
A member of an ancient Italic people of southern Etruria.
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The language of this people, closely related to Latin and known from place and personal names and from inscriptions.
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Of or relating to the Faliscans or their language or culture.
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Noun

Singular:
faliscan
Plural:
faliscans

Origin of faliscan

  • From Latin Faliscus from Faleriī , a city of ancient Etruria

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Faliscan Sentence Examples

  • In the Chalcidian alphabet the symbol for x was placed after the symbols common to all Greek alphabets, a position which X retains in the Latin (and also in the Faliscan) alphabet.

  • Y and Z were added in the last century of the republic for use in transliterating Greek words containing v and 1.1 The dialect which was most closely akin to Latin was Faliscan.

  • Much more important than the scanty remains of Faliscan is the Oscan alphabet.

  • A large number of inscriptions consisting mainly of proper names may be regarded as Etruscan rather than Faliscan, and they have been disregarded in the account of the dialect just given.

  • This distinction, however, takes us but a little way towards an historical grouping of the tribes, since the only Latinian dialects of which, besides Latin, we have inscriptions are Faliscan and Marsian (see FALISCT, MAR51); although the place-names of the Aequi suggest that they belong to the same group in this respect.

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