Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an ancient Italic people of southern Etruria.
- noun The language of this people, closely related to Latin and known from place and personal names and from inscriptions.
- adjective Of or relating to the Faliscans or their language or culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Falerii, an ancient city of Etruria, or to its dialect, which was related to Latin.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Falerii.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A member of an ancient
Italic people who lived in southernEtruria - proper noun uncountable The
language (related toLatin ) of these people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Indeed, so successful was Latin that it supplanted all its ancient linguistic cousins—other Italic languages once spoken on the so-called Italic Peninsula: Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Indeed, so successful was Latin that it supplanted all its ancient linguistic cousins—other Italic languages once spoken on the so-called Italic Peninsula: Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Read for example Pallottino, The Etruscans (1955), p.253 (see link) who testifies to the Faliscan inscription eco quto ... enotenosio ...
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan 2009
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Read for example Pallottino, The Etruscans (1955), p.253 (see link) who testifies to the Faliscan inscription eco quto ... enotenosio ...
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Finally I tried to translate Faliscan, Oscan, the Novilara Stele and much more.
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These I-formulations are found in Faliscan, Latin and Greek languages as well and so one shouldn't assume that they're merely an Etruscan idiosyncracy.
How Rhaetic should be translated with a methodology this time 2008
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These I-formulations are found in Faliscan, Latin and Greek languages as well and so one shouldn't assume that they're merely an Etruscan idiosyncracy.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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[2] The term 'I-formulation' refers to phrases in classical inscriptions consisting of "I am the [votive object] of [deceased recipient]", such as those using 1ps pronoun mi in Etruscan or those in Faliscan with 1ps pronoun eco.
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I realized that Faliscan, an Indo-European language of the Italic family to which Latin belongs, also shows an 'f' to 'h' sound change, so if there is anything to this, it would come down to something dialectal again.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Sure enough, I find this article called Is Faliscan a local Latin patois?
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