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Etymology

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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

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    Noun

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    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

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    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

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    References

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    • 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