forfex

English

Etymology

Noun

forfex (plural forfices)

(obsolete) A pair of shears.
- Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock
  The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring Forfex wide,
  
  T'inclose the Lock; now joins it, to divide.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of antiquities
  the Classical forfices

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for forfex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

forfex f (genitive forficis); third declension

pair of shears or scissors

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	forfex	forficēs
genitive	forficis	forficum
dative	forficī	forficibus
accusative	forficem	forficēs
ablative	forfice	forficibus
vocative	forfex	forficēs

Descendants

Aromanian: foarficã, foarticã
Friulian: fuarpis, fuarfis
Italian: forbice, forbici
Portuguese: fórfice
Romanian: foarfecă, foarfece

Romansch: forsch, forbesch
Sardinian: fóltighe, fórfiga, fórfighe
Sicilian: fòrficia
Venetian: forfe

References

forfex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
forfex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
forfex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
forfex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
forfex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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