fascis

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”), compare Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“together”), Old English bæst (“bast; inner bark of a tree”), Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Middle Irish basc (“neckband”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    fascis m (genitive fascis); third declension

    1. A faggot, fascine; bundle, packet, package, parcel.
    2. A burden, load.
    3. (usually in the plural) A bundle carried by lictors before the highest magistrates, consisting of rods and an axe, with which criminals were scourged and beheaded.
    4. A high office, like the consulship.

    Declension

    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    singular plural
    nominative fascis fascēs
    genitive fascis fascium
    dative fascī fascibus
    accusative fascem fascēs
    fascīs
    ablative fasce fascibus
    vocative fascis fascēs

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Spanish: haz
    • Aragonese: faixo
    • Asturian: feixe, feix, fexe
    • Catalan: feix
    • English: (from various derivative terms) fascism, faggot, fagot
    • French: faisser, faix
    • Italian: fascio
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: feixe
    • Romanian: fascie

    See also

    References

    • “fascis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “fascis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • fascis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to walk before with the fasces; to lower the fasces: fasces praeferre, summittere
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