English

Noun

forfex ‎(plural forfices)

1. (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

Latin

Noun

forfex f ‎(genitive forficis); third declension

1. pair of shears or scissors

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

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