fascis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”), see also Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“together”), Old English bæst (“inner bark of the linden 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).

Case 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
  • Aragonese: faxo
  • 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
  • Spanish: feje, haz, fajo

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to walk before with the fasces; to lower the fasces: fasces praeferre, summittere
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