forfico

Forms

forficō (present infinitive forficāre, perfect active forficāvī, supine forficātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin forfex (“shears, scissors”).^[1][2][3]

Wiktionary lists Romanian forfeca, Aromanian nfoarfic and Sardinian forfigare among its descendants.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL's first record is the Mulomedicina Chironis,^[2] which Köbler dates to the 4th century AD.^[4]

Semantic evolution

The glossaries render it with Greek ψαλίζω (psalízō), to cut with shears.^[5][3] Wiktionary treats it as an Early Medieval Latin word meaning to shear or cut with shears or scissors.^[1]

Timeline

• 4th century AD – The Mulomedicina Chironis has it.^[2][4]

Meanings

Verb

1. To shear; to cut with shears or scissors.^[3][1]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften