fiscus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin fiscus (“treasury”). === Noun === fiscus (plural fisci) A government treasury. == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. De Vaan rejects connections with findō (“to cleave”) and fidēlia (“earthen pot”); Beekes mentions obliquely the rhyme with rarer riscus, a likely Celtic borrowing into Latin and Greek. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɪs.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfis.kus] === Noun === fiscus m (genitive fiscī); second declension basket purse treasury; public money (Classical Latin) the assets bound to the function of the emperor Coordinate terms: aerārium, patrimōnium ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “fiscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fiscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fiscus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fiscus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “fiscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “fiscus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin