fasces
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fasces, plural of fascis
Noun
fasces (singular fascis)
- A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism
Translations
bundle
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Descendants
- Chinese: 法西斯 (fǎxīsī)
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) fascēs
- nominative plural of fascis
- accusative plural of fascis
- vocative plural of fascis
References
- fasces in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “fasces”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fasces”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin