Faliscan

American  

[fuh-lis-kuhn] / fəˈlɪs kən /

noun

• Faliscans,
  plural
• Faliscan
  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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Faliscan
  plural
• Faliscans
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Faliscan

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Faliscan Faliscans

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

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

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

At the decree of the Senate, Camillus raised a force and invaded the Faliscan territory.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart

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 Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

And when the people had ratified the election, he marched with his forces into the territories of the Faliscans, and laid seige to Falerii, a well-fortified city, and plentifully stored with all necessaries of war.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

A few days sufficed to lay the Faliscans in the dust they had so foolishly kicked up, and in the clouds of which we very rapidly lose sight of them.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

And when the people had ratified the election, he marched with his forces into the territories of the Faliscans, and laid siege to Falerii, a well-fortified city, and plentifully stored with all necessaries of war.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by John S. (John Stuart) White

Among the incidents of the life of Camillus, a story is told of an event that happened, when, after having subdued the Veientines, he drove the Faliscans out their city of Falerii.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

The Roman was ready at every moment to draw his sword for battle with Faliscans, Samnites, or Etruscans.

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

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