fisc

English

Etymology

From French fisc, from Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/

Noun

fisc (plural fiscs)

1. (Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
2. Any state treasury or exchequer.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 340:

     When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […].

Related terms

• fiscal

Anagrams

• CFIs, CIFS, ICFs, fics

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fisk/

Noun

fisc m (plural fiscs)

1. (economics) fiscal administration
   1. government department of taxation

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *fisk, Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ- (“fish”).

Noun

fisc m

1. fish

Alternative forms

• visc

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: visch
  • Dutch: vis
    • Afrikaans: vis
  • Limburgish: visj, vèsj
  • West Flemish: vissch

Further reading

• “fisk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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Old English

The word fisc is found on the early 8th century Franks Casket, one of the oldest monuments of Old English.

Alternative forms

• fix, ᚠᛁᛋᚳ (fisc) – Runic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiʃ/

Noun

fisċ m

1. fish

Declension

Declension of fisc (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fisċ	fiscas
accusative	fisċ	fiscas
genitive	fisċes	fisca
dative	fisċe	fiscum

Descendants

• Middle English: fisch, fysshe, fysch, fish, fische, fis, fyshe, fissh
  • English: fish
    • Sranan Tongo: fisi
    • → Chinook Jargon: pish
    • → Finnish: fisu
    • → Zulu: ufishi
  • Scots: fish, fysch, fisch
  • Yola: wish

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Old Saxon

Noun

fisc m

1. Alternative form of fisk