fisc

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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 […].

References

  1. ^ fisc | fisk, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fīscus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fisc m (plural fiscs or fiscos)

  1. treasury, public purse

Further reading

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fiscus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fisc m (plural fiscs)

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

Further reading

Old Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

fisc m

  1. fish

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: visch
    • Dutch: vis
      • Afrikaans: vis
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: fesi
      • Jersey Dutch: väśe
      • Negerhollands: visch, vesch, fes, fis, vis
        • Virgin Islands Creole: fis (dated)
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: fesi, fisse, fiche
      • Petjo: fis
      • ? Aukan: fisi
    • Limburgish: visj, vèsj
    • West Flemish: vissch

Further reading

  • fisk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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") .

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation

Noun

fisċ m (nominative plural fiscas)

  1. fish

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

Old Saxon

Noun

fisc m

  1. Alternative form of fisk

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fisc.

Noun

fisc n (uncountable)

  1. (economics) fiscal administration

Declension