fascis
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) 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).
Case | 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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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