fascio

See also: fasciò

English

Etymology

From Italian fascio.

Pronunciation

Noun

fascio (plural fascios or fasci)

  1. A bundle or sheaf.
    • 1913, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, page 38:
      The surfaces contain two fasci of curves — first, a fascio of elliptic curves, trajectories of the group, not necessarily a linear fascio; second, an elliptic fascio of curves of any genus; []
  2. (now historical) An organised Italian political group, typically one resisting state government and advocating radical change; (specifically) any of a number of groups formed around the period of the First World War.
    • 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 250:
      Crispi, who became prime minister for the second time at the end of 1893, saw the fasci as promoters of revolution.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃo/[1]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʃʃo
  • Hyphenation: fà‧scio

Etymology 1

From Latin fascis (with a change in declension).

    Noun

    fascio m (plural fasci)

    1. bundle (of wood)
    2. (by extension) a group or association
    3. sheaf (of hay)
    4. bunch (of flowers)
    5. beam (of light)
    6. fasces (usually in the plural)
    7. (slang) a fascist
    8. (mathematics) sheaf
    9. (anatomy) fasciculus, bundle
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Slavomolisano: faš

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    fascio

    1. first-person singular present indicative of fasciare

    References

    1. ^ fascio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

    Anagrams

    Latin

    Etymology

    Post-Classical. From fascia +‎ .

    Verb

    fasciō (present infinitive fasciāre, perfect active fasciāvī, supine fasciātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

    1. (rare) to envelop with bands, swathe

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    • Istriot: infasà
    • Italian: fasciare
    • Old Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Old French:
    • Old Occitan:
      • Occitan: faissar
    • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Old Spanish:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Sardinian: fascài, fascare, fasciai
    • Sicilian: fasciari
    • Venetan: fasar
    • Vulgar Latin: *infasciō, *infasciāre

    References

    • fascio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • fascio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.