![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordfalcate (FAL-kayt) - adj., shaped like a sickle.
Curved and tapered to a point. Or you could consider it shaped like a scythe blade, but since the word was adopted (in the 1820s) from Latin falcātus, from falx, sickle, you'd be ignoring the word's roots. Not that etymology determines destiny, but it would seem a little perverse to insist on scything.
---L.
Curved and tapered to a point. Or you could consider it shaped like a scythe blade, but since the word was adopted (in the 1820s) from Latin falcātus, from falx, sickle, you'd be ignoring the word's roots. Not that etymology determines destiny, but it would seem a little perverse to insist on scything.
---L.
