fascist

See also: Fascist

English

Etymology

1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfæʃɪst/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æʃɪst

Adjective

fascist (comparative more fascist, superlative most fascist)

1. Of or relating to fascism.
2. Supporting the principles of fascism.
   • 2020 March 2, Henry A. Giroux, “Auschwitz Survivors Don’t Want Their Past to Be Their Grandchildren’s Future”, in Truthout‎^[1]:

     Under demagogues such as Donald Trump in the U.S., Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Recep Erdoğan in Turkey, Narendra Modi in India and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a moral abyss has emerged in which state violence, widespread repression and a surge of lawlessness against those considered disposable have become the hallmark of an updated fascist politics.

3. (informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.

   I have a fascist boss.

Translations

of or relating to fascism

• Arabic: فَاشِسْتِيّ‎ (fāšistiyy), فَاشِيّ‎ (fāšiyy), نَازِيّ‎ (nāziyy)
• Armenian: ֆաշիստական (hy) (fašistakan)
• Belarusian: фашы́сцкі (fašýscki)
• Bulgarian: фаши́стки (fašístki)
• Catalan: feixista (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法西斯主義的／法西斯主义的 (fǎxīsīzhǔyì de)

• Czech: fašistický (cs)
• Dutch: fascistisch (nl)
• Esperanto: faŝisma
• Finnish: fasistinen (fi), fasismi- (in compounds)
• French: fasciste (fr), facho (fr) (slang)
• Galician: fascista (gl)
• Georgian: ფაშისტური (pašisṭuri)
• German: faschistisch (de)
• Greek: φασιστικός (el) (fasistikós)
• Hungarian: fasiszta (hu)
• Icelandic: fasískur
• Irish: faisisteach
• Italian: fascista (it)
• Kazakh: фашистік (kk) (faşistık)
• Macedonian: фаши́стички (fašístički)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fascistisk, fasistisk

  Nynorsk: fascistisk, fasistisk

• Polish: faszystowski (pl)
• Portuguese: fascista (pt)
• Romanian: fascist (ro)
• Russian: фаши́стский (ru) (fašístskij)
• Spanish: fascista (es), (slang) facha (es)
• Swedish: fascistisk (sv), fascistoid
• Tagalog: pasista
• Tajik: фашистӣ (fašistī)
• Turkish: faşist (tr)
• Ukrainian: фаши́стський (fašýstsʹkyj)
• Urdu: فاسی‎ (fāsī), فاشی‎ (fašī)
• Vietnamese: phát xít (vi)
• Volapük: fajistik
• Yiddish: פֿאַשיסטיש‎ (fashistish)

supporting the principles of fascism

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法西斯蒂的 (fǎxīsīdì de)

• Czech: fašistický (cs)
• Esperanto: faŝisma
• Finnish: fasistinen (fi)
• French: fasciste (fr), facho (fr) (slang)
• German: faschistisch (de)
• Greek: φασιστικός (el) (fasistikós)
• Hungarian: fasiszta (hu)
• Italian: fascista (it)
• Macedonian: фаши́стички (fašístički)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fascistisk, fasistisk

  Nynorsk: fascistisk, fasistisk

• Portuguese: fascista (pt)
• Romanian: fascist (ro)
• Russian: фаши́стский (ru) (fašístskij), фаши́ствующий (ru) (fašístvujuščij)
• Spanish: fascista (es), (slang) facha (es)
• Swedish: fascistisk (sv)
• Tagalog: pasista
• Turkish: faşist (tr)
• Urdu: فاسی‎ (fāsī)
• Yiddish: פֿאַשיסטיש‎ (fashistish)

informal: unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict

• Armenian: ֆաշիստ (hy) (fašist)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法西斯 (zh) (fǎxīsī)

• Finnish: fasistinen (fi)
• Georgian: ფაშისტი (pašisṭi)
• German: faschistisch (de)
• Hebrew: פשיסט‎
• Macedonian: фаши́стички (fašístički)
• Portuguese: fascista (pt)
• Russian: фаши́стский (ru) (fašístskij), фашистообра́зный (fašistoobráznyj)
• Spanish: fascista (es)

Noun

fascist (plural fascists)

1. A member of a political party or other organization that advocates fascist principles.
   • 2019 October 24, “Franco exhumation: Spanish dictator's remains moved”, in BBC News‎^[2]:

     Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades.

2. A proponent of fascism, frequently (highly derogatory) as an accusation towards any opponent of any political viewpoint whatsoever.

   Fascist? I'm not fascist. You're the fascist, you fascist.

Usage notes

It is very common to use fascist in an almost indiscriminate manner for political opponents, via fascism's figurative senses covering any form of bullying or authoritarianism whatsoever. Cf. George Orwell's 1944 “What is Fascism?”: “It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.”

Translations

proponent of fascism

• Albanian: fashist (sq) m
• Arabic: فَاشِسْتِيّ‎ m (fāšistiyy), فَاشِسْتِيَّة‎ f (fāšistiyya), فَاشِيّ‎ m (fāšiyy), فَاشِيَّة‎ f (fāšiyya), نَازِيّ‎ m (nāziyy), نَازِيَّة‎ f (nāziyya)
• Armenian: ֆաշիստ (hy) (fašist)
• Azerbaijani: faşist
• Belarusian: фашы́ст m (fašýst), фашы́стка f (fašýstka)
• Bengali: ফ্যাসিবাদী (bn) (phyasibadī), ফ্যাসিস্ট (phyasisṭo)
• Bulgarian: фаши́ст m (fašíst), фаши́стка f (fašístka)
• Burmese: ဖက်ဆစ် (hpakhcac)
• Catalan: feixista (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法西斯 (zh) (fǎxīsī), 納粹／纳粹 (zh) (nàcuì)

• Czech: fašista (cs) m, fašistka f
• Danish: fascist c
• Dutch: fascist (nl) m, fasciste (nl) f
• Esperanto: faŝisto (eo)
• Estonian: fašist
• Finnish: fasisti (fi)
• French: fasciste (fr) m, Nazi (fr) m
• Galician: fascista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ფაშისტი (pašisṭi)
• German: Faschist (de) m, Faschistin (de) f, Nazi (de) m, Fascho m
• Greek: φασίστας (el) m (fasístas)
• Hebrew: פָשִׁיסְט‎ m (fashíst)
• Hindi: फ़ासिस्ट m (fāsisṭ), फ़ासीवादी m (fāsīvādī)
• Hungarian: fasiszta (hu)
• Icelandic: fasisti (is) m
• Indonesian: fasis (id)
• Irish: faisistí m
• Italian: fascista (it)
• Japanese: ファシスト (fashisuto), ナチス (ja) (nachisu)
• Kazakh: фашист (faşist)
• Khmer: ហ្វាស៊ីស (faasiih)
• Korean: 파시스트 (ko) (pasiseuteu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: faşist (ku)

• Kyrgyz: фашист (ky) (faşist)
• Latvian: fašists m
• Lithuanian: fašistas m
• Macedonian: фаши́ст m (fašíst), фаши́стка f (fašístka)
• Malay: fasis
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: фашист (mn) (fašist)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fascist (no) m

• Occitan: fascista m or f
• Pashto: فاشيست‎ (ps) m (fāšíst)
• Persian: فاشیست‎ (fa) (fâšist)
• Polish: faszysta (pl) m, faszystka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fascista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: fascist (ro) m, fascistă (ro) f
• Russian: фаши́ст (ru) m (fašíst), фаши́стка (ru) f (fašístka), наци́ст (ru) m (nacíst), наци́стка (ru) f (nacístka), фошыст m (fošyst) (internet slang, derogatory)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фашиста m, фа̀шисткиња f

  Roman: fašista (sh) m, fàšistkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: fašista m, fašistka f
• Slovene: fašist (sl) m, fašistka f
• Spanish: fascista (es) m or f
• Swedish: fascist (sv) c
• Tagalog: pasista
• Tajik: фашист (tg) (fašist)
• Thai: ฟาสซิสต์ (fáat-sít)
• Turkish: faşist (tr)
• Turkmen: faşist
• Ukrainian: фаши́ст (uk) m (fašýst), фаши́стка f (fašýstka)
• Urdu: فاشسٹ‎ m (fāśisṭ)
• Uyghur: فاشىست‎ (fashist)
• Uzbek: fashist (uz)
• Vietnamese: phần tử phát xít
• Yiddish: פֿאַשיסט‎ m (fashist)

Derived terms

• anarcho-fascist
• anti-fascist
• clerofascist
• crypto-fascist
• eco-fascist
• fascist Germany
• Islamofascist
• monarcho-fascist
• neo-fascist
• para-fascist
• proto-fascist
• quasi-fascist
• red fascist
• religio-fascist
• scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
• scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist
• social fascist

 

Related terms

• fascism
• fascistic
• fash

See also

• Nazi, nazi

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “fascist”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Dutch

Etymology

Early 1920s. Borrowed from Italian fascista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑˈsɪst/, /fɑˈʃɪst/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fas‧cist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

fascist m (plural fascisten, diminutive fascistje n, feminine fasciste)

1. fascist [from 1920s]

Derived terms

• fascistisch

Related terms

• fascisme

Descendants

• → Indonesian: fasis

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian fascista or French fasciste.

Adjective

fascist m or n (feminine singular fascistă, masculine plural fasciști, feminine and neuter plural fasciste)

1. fascist (supporting the principles of fascism)

Declension

Declension of fascist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	fascist		fascistă	fasciști	fasciste
	definite	fascistul		fascista	fasciștii	fascistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	fascist		fasciste	fasciști	fasciste
	definite	fascistului		fascistei	fasciștilor	fascistelor

Noun

fascist m (plural fasciști)

1. fascist (“proponent of fascism”)

Declension

Declension of fascist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fascist	fascistul	(niște) fasciști	fasciștii
genitive/dative	(unui) fascist	fascistului	(unor) fasciști	fasciștilor
vocative	fascistule		fasciștilor

Swedish

Alternative forms

• faskist (rare)

Noun

fascist c

1. fascist

Declension

Declension of fascist
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fascist	fascisten	fascister	fascisterna
Genitive	fascists	fascistens	fascisters	fascisternas

Related terms

• fascism
• fascistisk

References

• fascist in Svensk ordbok (SO)