Faliscan

American  

[fuh-lis-kuhn] / fəˈlɪs kən /

noun

Faliscans plural

1. a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.

2. the Italic language spoken by this people, closely related to Latin.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Faliscans or their language.

Faliscan British  

/ fəˈlɪskən /

noun

1. an ancient language of Italy, spoken in the area north of the Tiber. It was closely related to Latin, which displaced it before 200 _bc

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Etymology

Origin of Faliscan

1590–1600; < Latin Falisc ( us ) of Falerii, major city of the Faliscans + -an

Example Sentences

Parallel to these forms with p are forms in the Italic languages except Latin and Faliscan, and in the Cymric group of the Celtic languages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Of this latter process we have now a beautiful sample in a skull discovered in the excavations of Faleria, and exhibited in the Faliscan Museum at the Villa Giulia, outside the Porta del Popolo.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo

This shows some of the phonetic characteristics of the Faliscan dialect, viz.:—

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

After this, Camillus invaded the Faliscan territory, and in a great battle overthrew that people, and the Capenates who came to their assistance.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

In the Faliscan country on the Via Campana in the Campus Cornetus is a grove in which rises a spring, and there the bones of birds and of lizards and other reptiles are seen lying.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio