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Webster 1913 Edition
Forfex
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For′fex
,Noun.
[L.]
A pair of shears.
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Forfex
FOR'FEX
,Noun.
Definition 2024
forfex
forfex
English
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
- Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock
Latin
Noun
forfex f (genitive forficis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | forfex | forficēs |
genitive | forficis | forficum |
dative | forficī | forficibus |
accusative | forficem | forficēs |
ablative | forfice | forficibus |
vocative | forfex | forficēs |
Descendants
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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)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “forfex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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