falx
/fælks/noun
falx is a noun meaning “A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-X, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of falx is falxes or falces.
What does falx mean?
noun
- 1
A short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- 2
A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
- 3
datedA chelicera.
- 4
A snake's poison fang.
- 5
A rotula of a sea urchin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce falx?
- /fælks/
- /fɔlks/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-falx.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-falx2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of falx
- falxes plural
- falces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is falx?
Falx appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does falx come from?
From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).