fascis
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfas.kis/, [ˈfäs̠kɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃis/, [ˈfäʃːis]
Noun
[edit]fascis m (genitive fascis); third declension
- A faggot, 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.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fascis | fascēs |
genitive | fascis | fascium |
dative | fascī | fascibus |
accusative | fascem | fascēs fascīs |
ablative | fasce | fascibus |
vocative | fascis | fascēs |
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[edit]References
[edit]- “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
- to walk before with the fasces; to lower the fasces: fasces praeferre, summittere
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