Faliscan

American  

[fuh-lis-kuhn] / fəˈlɪs kən /

noun

plural

Faliscans,

plural

Faliscan

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

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

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

Except possibly Faliscan, the other dialects of Italy did not borrow their alphabet directly from the western Greeks as the Romans did, but received it at second hand through the Etruscans.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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.

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