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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”);[1] see fiscal.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fisc (plural fiscs)
- (Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
- 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 […].
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “fisc | fisk, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fīscus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fisc m (plural fiscs or fiscos)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fisc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fiscus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fisc m (plural fiscs)
- (economics) tax authorities, fiscal administration
- government department of taxation
Further reading
[edit]- “fisc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *fisk, Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).
Noun
[edit]fisc m
Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle Dutch: visch
Further reading
[edit]- “fisk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fisċ m (nominative plural fiscas)
Declension
[edit]Declension of fisc (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]- fisċere (“fisherman”)
- fiscian (“to fish”)
- fisċnett (“fishing net”)
- fisċwēr (“fishweir”)
- sċielfisċ (“shellfish”)
- *sweordfisċ (“swordfish”)
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]- angol (“fishhook”)
Old Saxon
[edit]Noun
[edit]fisc m
- Alternative form of fisk
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fisc n (uncountable)
Declension
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