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fisc

English

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Etymology

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Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”);[1] see fiscal.

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Noun

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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, page 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 […].
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References

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  1. ^ “fisc | fisk, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin fīscus.

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Noun

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fisc m (plural fiscs or fiscos)

  1. treasury, public purse
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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin fiscus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fisc m (plural fiscs)

  1. (economics) tax authorities, fiscal administration
    1. government department of taxation

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Old Dutch

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Etymology

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

Noun

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fisc m

  1. fish

Inflection

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Declension of fisc (masculine a-stem noun)
case singular plural
nominative fisc fisca
accusative fisc fisca
genitive fiskes fisco
dative fiske fiscon

Alternative forms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • “fisk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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The word fisc is found on the early 8th century Franks Casket, one of the oldest monuments of Old English ("ᚠᛁᛋᚳ.ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ" or "fisc flódu") .

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Etymology

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    From Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *péysks.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    fisċ m (nominative plural fiscas)

    1. fish
      • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year
        Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.
        Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales”; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

    Declension

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    Strong a-stem:

    singular plural
    nominative fisċ fiscas
    accusative fisċ fiscas
    genitive fisċes fisca
    dative fisċe fiscum

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    Descendants

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    Old Saxon

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    Noun

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    fisc m

    1. Alternative form of fisk

    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French fisc.

    Noun

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    fisc n (uncountable)

    1. (economics) fiscal administration

    Declension

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    Declension of fisc
    singular only indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative fisc fiscul
    genitive-dative fisc fiscului
    vocative fiscule
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