fascis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bhasko (“bundle, band”), see also Proto-Celtic *baski (“bundle, load”), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”), Old English bæst (“inner bark of the linden tree”), Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Middle Irish basc (“neckband”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.kis/, [ˈfas.kɪs]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ʃis/, [ˈfaʃ.ʃis]

Noun

fascis m (genitive fascis); third declension

A fagot, fascine; bundle, packet, package, parcel.
A burden, load.
(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.
A high office, like the consulship.

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fascis	fascēs
genitive	fascis	fascium
dative	fascī	fascibus
accusative	fascem	fascēs
ablative	fasce	fascibus
vocative	fascis	fascēs

Synonyms

(bundle): sarcina
(fascine): crātis
(burden, load): sarcina

Derived terms

Related terms

fascia

Descendants

Asturian: feixe, feix, fexe
Catalan: feix
English: (from various derivative terms) fascism, faggot, fagot
French: faisser, faix
Galician: feixe

Italian: fascio
Old Portuguese: feixe
Portuguese: feixe
Romanian: fascie
Spanish: feje, haz

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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