fascis

== Latin == === Etymology === Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”), compare Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“together”), Old English bæst (“bast; inner bark of a tree”), Welsh baich (“load, burden”), Middle Irish basc (“neckband”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfas.kɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfaʃ.ʃis] === Noun === 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 ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Synonyms ==== (bundle): sarcina (fascine): crātis (burden, load): sarcina ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fascia ==== Descendants ==== ==== See also ==== fascia === References === “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.