[lit-ideas] Cary's Falk
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:00:23 EST
From
_http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/EUD_FAT/FALCON_Lat_Falco_Fr_Faucon_Teut.html_
(http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/EUD_FAT/FALCON_Lat_Falco_Fr_Faucon_Teut.html)
Unknown to Classical [Roman] writers, the earliest use of this word
['falco'] is said to be by Servius Honoratus (circa A.D . 390–480) in his notes
on
Aeneis x . 145 .
WOULD NEED TO CHECK THAT!
It seems possibly to be the Latinized "Falk", though "falx" is commonly
accounted its
root . The nomenclature of nearly all the older writers on this point is
extremely confused."
So we need to see why Servius Honoratus thought that Virgil is referring to
a falco peregrinus in Aeneis, x, v. 145.
Another online site for baby-names says "Falk" is German and means "Hawk"
and this link above does make the connection not made in the OED between French
falcon and German 'falk', valken, hawk.
Cheers,
JL
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