Faliscan

[ fuh-lis-kuhn ]

noun

, plural Fa·lis·cans, (especially collectively) Fa·lis·can

1. a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.
2. the Italic language spoken by this people, closely related to Latin.

adjective

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

Faliscan

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Faliscan¹

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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