faliscus

From Falisci (Faliscans) +‎ -us.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [faˈlɪs.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faˈlis.kus]

faliscus (feminine falisca, neuter faliscum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Faliscan

First/second-declension adjective.

faliscus m (genitive faliscī); second declension

1. a kind of Faliscan sausage
   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Silvae 4.9.20–36:

     Sed Bruti senis oscitationes de capsa miseri libellionis emptum plus minus asse Gaiano, donas. […] non lucanica, non graves falisci, non sal oxyporumve caseusve?

     But no, you send me Brutus’ boring stuff, bought for about a Caligulan as from a poor bookseller’s bag. […] Wasn’t there Lucanian boloney, no heavy Faliscian sujuks, no salt, carminative, or cheese?

Second-declension noun.

• "faliscus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “faliscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers